On Saturday 27 February 2010 18:20:24 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote:
Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2,
and has historically been limited to a total size[1] to 512 bytes,
It's actually less than that, because the first 64 bytes of sector 0
contain
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:10:02 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Re: Who believes in cylinders?:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 18:20:24 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote:
Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2,
and has historically been limited to a total
Many years ago I wrote an OS/2 program to handle all of this. Perhaps I
should blow the dust off it, convert it to use POSIX functions and
publish it as FOSS.
Why reinvent the wheel? Just use 'sfdisk -d'.
andrea
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:10:02 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?:
Many years ago I wrote an OS/2 program to handle all of this.
Perhaps I should blow the dust off it, convert it to use POSIX
functions and publish it as FOSS.
Why reinvent the wheel
On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote:
- Original Message
From: Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote:
Is there really any need for the cylinder these days?
Who cares what cylinder it's on, and
who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote:
- Original Message
From: Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote:
Is there really any need for the cylinder these days?
Who cares what cylinder
- Original Message
From: walt w41...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote:
From: Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote:
Is there really any need for the cylinder these days?
Who cares what cylinder it's on, and
who
On Saturday 27 February 2010, BRM wrote:
Stage 1 focuses solely on loading Stage 2,
and has historically been limited to a total size[1] to 512 bytes,
It's actually less than that, because the first 64 bytes of sector 0 contain
the partition table, so the maximum size of a stage1 bootloader
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