Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:22:52 +0100 (CET) |
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> 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.
I found some PC BIOS-es refuse to read the MBR if no active partition is found in the partition table...
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