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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition table read incorrectly
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:21:03 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110031621.QAA03519@vlet.cwi.nl> (raw)

>> Maybe there is still "0xaa55" on the disk at 0x1fe and the kernel
>> thinks it is a DOS partition?

> Note that that is true for *ANY* partition scheme which is bootable,
> since this is a requirement of the boot firmware interface, rather of
> any particular partitioning scheme...

You mean on i386 hardware? With the most common BIOS versions?


             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-03 16:21 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
2001-10-03 17:04 ` partition table read incorrectly Charles Marslett
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-02 18:29 Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-02 18:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-02 20:00   ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-10-02 21:08     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-03  0:34       ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-03 11:22       ` Guest section DW
2001-10-02 22:45     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-03  0:57       ` Wichert Akkerman

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