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always to the first 16 sectors of the disk. The firmware reads the boot code from a partition, defaulting to 'a' if none is specified, which only corresponds to the first 16 sectors of the disk if 'a' is first. Solaris often makes the swap partition first, instead of the root partition, and users expect to be able to do the same with freebsd as well. This also allows one to temporarily boot from another partition if the boot block on the root partition gets scrambled somehow. |
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blocks.c | ||
change.c | ||
chunk.c | ||
create_chunk.c | ||
disk.c | ||
libdisk.3 | ||
libdisk.h | ||
Makefile | ||
rules.c | ||
tst01.c | ||
write_alpha_disk.c | ||
write_amd64_disk.c | ||
write_disk.c | ||
write_i386_disk.c | ||
write_ia64_disk.c | ||
write_pc98_disk.c | ||
write_sparc64_disk.c |