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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