Subject: Re: port-shark/35576 - Make sysinst clear MBR
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 03/12/2007 08:50:50
On 3/12/07, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> 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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