Re: [reiserfs-list] Boot failure: msdos pushes in front of reiserfs

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:21:15PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> Hmmm mke2fs seems to always zero out the first 1024, except on sparcs (when
> ZAP_BOOT_BLOCK not defined). I thought alphas stored the partition table on
> the first block of the first partition as well, and that we didn't want to
> zero it then.

*nitpick*

I think that's Sun... Alpha's use either BSD or MSDOS tables, neither
of which do that...

Andrew

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