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Re: port-shark/35576 - Make sysinst clear MBR

Subject: Re: port-shark/35576 - Make sysinst clear MBR
From: "Todd Vierling"
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:50:50 -0400
On 3/12/07, David Laight <david@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do I presume that the shark needs the root filesystem to start in
sector 0 of the disk ?

Which is incompatible with any normal MBR table.

To my knowledge, the shark's firmware is capable of using a disk with
either a MBR label (with BSD disklabel inside the 386BSD-typed MBR
slice?), *or* solely a BSD disklabel in the first cylinder.

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