Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL

From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:54:49 -0700
On May 31, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record says that there may
> be another boot loader inside 0x0 ~ 0x1bd.  If that's the case, I'm
> wondering if there is any disadvantage to disable the checksumming
> against 0x60 ~ 0x1b5?

The intend was to prevent false positives. I think it's probably best
to remove the checksumming and deal with false positives differently:
such as by making sure that the partition has the right type...

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt_at_mac.com
Received on Tue Jun 01 2010 - 14:55:02 UTC

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