In message <4B3FC8A2.1090901_at_elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> You overlook that MBR/Fdisk requires bootable slices to start at a >> "track". That means that the propper slice-alignmen typically >> will be 8*63=504 sectors. > >No it doesn't, (or at least it didn't) but it has become custom to do so. Yes it does, for all slices not starting on the first head. We've been over this maddness in the past multiple times. If somebody is willing to suffer this breakage on funky old bios'es, betting that most of those systems will never run FreeBSD-9, I would say they are being emminently sensible, but still have their work cut out for them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Jan 02 2010 - 21:36:46 UTC
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