The following reply was made to PR kern/157819; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eir Nym <[email protected]> To: Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <[email protected]>, [email protected], Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: kern/157819: [geom] gpart(8): drop serial from MBR Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:10:41 +0400 On 15 June 2011 19:43, Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > [....] > > The fundamental question we need to answer is this: > Is the serial number a well-defined field in the MBR that is > independent and unrelated to the bootcode, or not? Yes, this field is defined in several documentation sources. It has 6 bytes and used Windows OS as disk identifier in registry to specify mount point. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978525.aspx > [....] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
