From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264596AbTK3CWz (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:22:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264598AbTK3CWz (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:22:55 -0500 Received: from green.mif.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.42.8]:48162 "EHLO green.mif.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264596AbTK3CWy (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:22:54 -0500 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Message-Id: <200311300222.hAU2MqcB002434@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel list) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:22:52 +0100 (CET) Cc: aebr@win.tue.nl In-Reply-To: <200311300220.hAU2K0dr019280@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> from "Andrzej Krzysztofowicz" at Nov 30, 2003 03:20:07 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. I found some PC BIOS-es refuse to read the MBR if no active partition is found in the partition table... -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Gdansk University of Technology