On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 11:33 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > That is mostly true. There are some SCSI BIOSes that would examine the MBR > and infer what C/H/S geometry the OS was expecting from the MBR. The > original dedicated disk dummy MBR triggered a divide by zero in one of these > BIOS ROMs.
I guess RAID BIOS's read through the MBR too: my Gigabyte board has an Intel AHCI BIOS (1.20E seems to be the problematic revision) with fakeraid that hangs (requiring a CMOS reset) if you install FreeBSD physically after Windows 7 x64 for example - and some IBM laptops have a bug related to repair partitions and FreeBSD too (http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Laptops), so they must read the MBR too. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"