From: "Grégoire Sutre" <gregoire.sutre@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reserved first sector for UFS
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:23:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D26F7C6.9080904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D26EB2E.5030106@gmail.com>
On 01/07/2011 11:30, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 01/07/2011 10:35 AM, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
>> Isn't the first sector reserved for the boot block in UFS?
>>
> Depends on OS:
>
> /* The blocks on which the superblock can be found. */
> static int sblocklist[] = { 128, 16, 0, 512, -1 };
Do you know of any OS that would put the superblock in sector 0?
I googled a bit, but I couldn't find examples where UFS would
not start with a boot sector (afaics, it usually starts with a
bootblock area of at least 8KiB -- with OS-specific data in it,
e.g. a disklabel).
Grégoire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-07 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 9:35 Reserved first sector for UFS Grégoire Sutre
2011-01-07 10:30 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-07 10:48 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-07 10:57 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-07 11:23 ` Grégoire Sutre [this message]
2011-01-07 12:20 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-07 14:18 ` Grégoire Sutre
2011-01-07 16:39 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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