Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX

[Andries Brouwer]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:44:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:

> That said, i really doubt that a standard BIOS can boot from a not MBR
> containing disk, but i may be wrong.

The BIOS reads the MBR and jumps to the code loaded from there.
There is no need for any partition table, or, if there is a table,
for any particular format. It is all up to the code that is found
in the MBR.