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From: jdb@mordor.ARPA (John Bruner)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: C partition
Message-ID: <15583@mordor.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 19:00:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: mordor.15583
Posted: Tue Sep 23 19:00:09 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 22:47:38 EDT
References: <7473@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner)
Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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Sun's partition table on the disc is very convenient.  Unfortunately,
their placement of it is not.  They put the disc label in the first
sector on the volume.  This is OK if your machine's ROM knows about it,
but if the hardware bootstrap wants to read block 0 (as the VAX does)
it is a little inconvenient. :-)

An obvious alternative would be block 15 (the last 512 bytes of
the first 8K), provided that the size of the boot program at the
beginning of the disc is limited to 7.5K.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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