Subject: Re: Compaq diagnostic partition Vs Bootselector
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/12/2002 19:56:51
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:45:31PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> There is nothing anywhere that is likely to force a bootable partition
> (for a PC) onto a cylinder boundary.

In theory maybe, but I got no ends of troubles with unaligned partitions.
It seems some BIOSes read the MBR themselves.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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