> On Fri, 2004-07-16 16:31:53 +0200, ragge@ludd.luth.se <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
> wrote in message <200407161431.QAA23602@father.ludd.luth.se>:
> 
> > Just FYI (unless you know that): Also on i386 the BSD partitions are
> > not mapped on DOS primary/secondary/extended/... partitions, it's a
> > separate entity.  There may not even be a MBR on the disk.
> 
> ...unless you want to boot from that HDD.
> 
Actually, the only thing needed is the code that loads the boot 
program in the first sector + the magic 0x55AA in the last word 
of the sector.  Then BIOS will happily load and execute the block.
No need for any DOS MBR here :-)

-- Ragge