Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:07:09 -0700
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> writes:
>> Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal_at_gmail.com> writes:
>>> Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that
>>> GEOM_PART would be happy with?
>> it may be as little as overwriting bytes 510 and 511 of block0.
>> (the last 2 bytes of the block are a magic number)
>>
>> this would stop the fdisk taster from recognising it as an fdisk
>> block and teh disklabel taster would recognise the disklabel.
> 
> If by "block0" you mean the very first sector of the disk, it will also
> stop the BIOS from booting from that disk...
> 
> DES

Sorry, I thought it wasnt the boot disk
(my misreading)
Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 15:07:10 UTC

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