Subject: Re: recent boot.fs for 1.4?
To: Robert V. Baron <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/10/1999 13:44:07
rvb@cs.cmu.edu said:
> It seems to me that the write_mbr() abstraction is bad.  It should
> just write the mbr to disk.  Define a only_write_mbr() that just
> writes and rewrite write_mbr to use only_write_mbr() and have
> md_upgrade_mbrtype() call only_write_mbr(). 

That's what I wanted to say with
> Imho, the code shouldn't care about the geometry at all when
> upgrading, but this would be a more serious change.
It was a bit too much for a last-minute fix for my taste.

best regards
Matthias