On 1/24/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Thordur I. Bjornsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon 23.Jan'06 at 19:19:46 -0800
> > >
> > > looking at netbsd, [snip]
> >
> > and a look at freebsd, wich is the same as netbsd:
> > backup[65] = block[65]; /* XXX */
> > if (memcmp(block + 11, backup + 11, 79)) {
> > /* Correct? XXX */
> >
> > Did some very unsientific test regarding this and can
> > (well, not really) confirm that this borkes with DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE
> > wich is 512.
> >
> > Should openbsd go with the flow here ?
>
> Yes it should. This bug is annoying if you're trying to dual-boot with
yes, but i'd like to know where wolfgang came up with those numbers.
52 seems a more reasonable magic number than 11 + 79. since
apparently either works, but they aren't really equivalent, i'd like
to know why.
