Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:13 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: jhb@freebsd.org (John Baldwin), Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <xzp8z0mk88q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> (Mark Valentine's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:05:36 %2B0100 (BST)") References: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org>
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Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> writes: > The MBR partitioning is a feature of the MBR boot code, not of the BIOS. Wrong. Plenty of recent-issue BIOSen (particularly on laptops) go down in flames if the MBR does not contain a valid partition table. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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