Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:56:38 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this booting info correct? Message-ID: <hgcrpn$aop$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <4B296E66.6030405@a1poweruser.com>
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Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] > > The number of hard drive primary-partitions/slices is determined by the > motherboard BIOS (Basic input output system), not the operating system. > Standard motherboard BIOS limits hard-drives to 4 main divisions > [snip] Not quite true. The only thing contained within the BIOS is an instruction to jump to sector 0 of track 0 after a successful POST. -Mike
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