On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that src/sbin/fdisk.c can only read the MBR of disks having a > blocksize different than 512 bytes. When writing a new MBR, the below check > fails. Can someone having knowledge into fdisk, fix this issue and MFC to 8- > stable? Also I'm curious about the #ifdef __ia64__ .
You can eliminate the __ia64__ conditional if you want. From the commit log: ======== r95860 | peter | 2002-05-01 06:48:29 +0000 (Wed, 01 May 2002) | 4 lines Add a hack so that fdisk(8) can initialize an ia64 disk. There is no /boot/mbr to read the boot code from (ia64 does not *have* bootblocks!). fdisk depended on magic in the /boot/mbr file to initialize some fields. ======== fdisk is not compiled for ia64 anymore since the introduction of gpart. The same holds for bsdlabel. So, that means that the hack is not needed anymore. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com _______________________________________________ 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"
