Re: Sysinst "bypass fdisk" option?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:09:43PM -0000, Andrew Ball wrote:
>     I imagine the secondary bootstrap loader is too large to live in
> the boot block of a disk with a BSD disklabel that is not contained
> within an fdisk 'BIOS level' partition. It should be possible to write
> a small boot block that didn't require fdisk, but then I suppose there
> is the question of where the secondary bootstrap loader would live.

You are just reinventing the wheel. Almost any BIOS made in the last 10
years or so will allow LBA access to the disk, so the argument of
avoiding geometry mismatch is essentially pointless nowaday.

Joerg