On Sun, 23-Jul-2000 at 15:33:43 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Doug White once stated:
>
> => Wait! Smarter then what? So it can boot NT and Win98 for some
> => weenies, or, actually do something useful (not sure what, though)?
> => Why am I to waste space (even so little) "to be compatible with other
> => OSes", if there will never be any other OSes?
> =
> =So you'll be compatible with your BIOS as well. Many BIOSen get really,
> =really torqued if your partition table isn't normal.
>
> I'm yet to see a BIOS, for which this is true. May be, I'm just lucky...
You are lucky. Try some Siemens crap with their Phoenix BIOS.
They simply say "Read error" if you wanted to use dangerously
dedicated mode. I have been bitten by this a lot of times. Normally,
I don't use Siemens machines for things other than Win* crap but
sometimes I have (had) to.
-Andre
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