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Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
From: |
Sven Luther |
Subject: |
Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:44:11 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:14:24PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:01:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > The only problem is that your BIOS will probably not be able
> > to boot from it
>
> You seem to misunderstand the boot sequence.
> The BIOS does not generally do any parsing of partition tables.
A, ok. I am more familiar with open firmware, which does contain
partition table reading code.
That said, i really doubt that a standard BIOS can boot from a not MBR
containing disk, but i may be wrong.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, (continued)
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Stefan Smietanowski, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX,
Sven Luther <=
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sergey Vlasov, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Arjan van de Ven, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/30