From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 13:24:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg134-217.ricochet.net [204.179.134.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E83837B65E; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01303; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003222127.NAA01303@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Vivek Khera Cc: Mike Smith , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:13:35 EST." <14553.14207.194024.839781@onceler.kcilink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:27:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>>>> "MS" == Mike Smith writes: > > MS> Regardless of what you think, the only correct way to divvy up a disk on > MS> a PC is to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other > MS> way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your > MS> ignorance. > > Excuse me, but an MBR is not an FDISK label. I had a system that had > BSD/OS instaled on it with no FDISK label and it worked just fine. The first 512 bytes of any disk attached to a PC are assumed to be a valid MBR. Such a valid MBR includes boot code, a table describing four disk regions and a checksum. This table of disk regions must be present; you cannot expect reliable operation without it. > Who's demonstrating ignorance here? "It works for me" isn't even close to a valid argument. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message