Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

> The BIOS reads the MBR and jumps to the code loaded from there.
> There is no need for any partition table, or, if there is a table,
> for any particular format. It is all up to the code that is found
> in the MBR.

I found some PC BIOS-es refuse to read the MBR if no active partition is
found in the partition table...

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