Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:39:04 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:44:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> That said, i really doubt that a standard BIOS can boot from a not MBR > containing disk, but i may be wrong.
The BIOS reads the MBR and jumps to the code loaded from there. There is no need for any partition table, or, if there is a table, for any particular format. It is all up to the code that is found in the MBR.
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