Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:06:44 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: LILO and NT signatures |
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On Sun, 21 Jul 1996 loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de wrote: > TIA, > Martin > > P.S. Just to make this a kernel related message (-: disk signatures are > an option to recognize a drive in a world of changing SCSI IDs and > minor device numbers. Now, the boot sector is probably to small to > store mount information for all operating systems - so we might > even share the disk signature with NT, instead of overwriting it. >
The boot sector is 0.5k (512 bytes), even in the days of bloted windows apps, there should be plenty of room (tho we have to have the code to boot on the first drive). Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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