Re: debinst: non-msdos partition table creation support

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au> writes:

> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > On a PC, BIOS needs to be able to read it first, before anything else.
> > 
> > regards,
> >         junichi
> > 
> 
> Are you sure ?
> 
> I can understand that this would be the case for OS's that use the boot
> indicator flag to work out which partition to boot from, but linux
> doesnt use this, and pretty much ignores the BIOS for everything.

You need the MBR, everything else can be changed if your mbr handles
that.

MfG
        Goswin