In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
As to the issue of BIOSes disliking DD modes, there have been a few
different reasons suggested.
I had a dual xeon BIOS that had anti-virus code. If the boot block
didn't have the write MBR on it, it rewrote the first 63 sectors,
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by
working up a patch for the disklabel manpage (at least) and, if you
want, I'll CC you so you can veto things you
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by
working up a patch for the disklabel manpage (at least) and, if you
want, I'll CC you so you can veto things you don't like. I do worry
about how so few people
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You've cleared up several things, thanks. (I still don't see why any
BIOS would have trouble with a DD disk, leading to DD's deprecation, but
I can just take people's word for it, for the task
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As you can see, it's sector 1, not sector 0. Everything else seems to
be correct.
More terminology problems. 1 means 0. Says fdisk:
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
I'm having trouble understanding a couple parts of the disklabel
manpage related to dangerously/fully dedicated disks.
The BUGS section has this paragraph:
For the i386 architecture, the primary bootstrap sector contains
Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by
working up a patch for the disklabel manpage (at least) and, if you
want, I'll CC you so you can veto things you don't like. I do worry
about how so few people comment on manpage changes before they go in,
but they need improvement
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by
working up a patch for the disklabel manpage (at least) and, if you
want, I'll CC you so you can veto things you don't like. I do worry
At the risk of adding to the
Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At the risk of adding to the confusion, here is a less wordy
description of the various disk layouts. The term `dangerously
dedicated' seems to be used to refer to either options (B) or (C),
so I will avoid using that term:
You've cleared up several
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/boot/boot0 has the FreeBSD bootloader. The installer also offers
to use the standard /boot/mbr.
Roughly speaking. /boot/boot2 is 15 sectors; I suppose the first
(all zeros) is replaced with the disklabel, loosely speaking.
One such as
I'm having trouble understanding a couple parts of the disklabel
manpage related to dangerously/fully dedicated disks.
The BUGS section has this paragraph:
For the i386 architecture, the primary bootstrap sector contains an
embedded fdisk table. The disklabel utility takes care to not
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