Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX

[Sven Luther]

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
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