Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:42:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: rnordier@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011210442.eAL4gN900616@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:57:00 PST." <200011202157.NAA19653@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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> Let me state this one more time loudly for those calling themselves boot
> code experts. THE PARTITION TABLE IN THE MBR IS NOT DEALT WITH BY THE BIOS,
> BIOSES THAT TRY TO MAKE HEADS OR TALES OF PARTITION TABLES ARE TECHNICALLY
> BROKEN AND VIOLATE IBM AT COMPATIBILITY. If you doubt this go read about
> BIOS service 19H, IPL load.
It doesn't matter how loudly you shout, or what exactly you stuff in your
ears. The fact is that this code exists, is part of the de-facto
platform standard, and has to be dealt with as such.
You are welcome to continue to dual-boot FreeBSD and PC-DOS 2.0. In the
meantime, the rest of us are living in the real world, and dealing with
real-world problems. Please let us get on with what has to be done.
Thankyou.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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