> >>>>> "MS" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MS> Regardless of what you think, the only correct way to divvy up a disk on
> MS> a PC is to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other
> MS> way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your
> MS> ignorance.
>
> Excuse me, but an MBR is not an FDISK label. I had a system that had
> BSD/OS instaled on it with no FDISK label and it worked just fine.
The first 512 bytes of any disk attached to a PC are assumed to be a
valid MBR. Such a valid MBR includes boot code, a table describing
four disk regions and a checksum.
This table of disk regions must be present; you cannot expect reliable
operation without it.
> Who's demonstrating ignorance here?
"It works for me" isn't even close to a valid argument.
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