The more I look at the MBR page, the less I think changes would make sense. It's a good set of instructions for writing a MBR-based bootloader, and I don't want to spoil that. Also, the page's full name makes perfect sense in this context: "MBR (x86)" because it's about writing a bootloader for x86 PCs and not, say, PPC Macs or 68k Atari STs, both of which use MBR partition tables.
New proposal:
- Remove only the partition table section from MBR (x86) -- it gives the idea there is partition table info to be found there, but there's very little.
- [DONE] Remove the 48-bit proposal from the Partition Table page
- Request a rename for the Partition Table page to MBR Partition Table
- Create Partition Table as a disambiguation page following the comments above
Comments will be appreciated.
EDIT: The 48-bit section formerly had the following note:
Quote:
'''Note: This appears to be [[User:Bewing]]'s own invention and probably isn't implemented anywhere. Someone investigate this, please.'''
Someone
helpfully replaced this with a simple {{disputed}} .
I'm looking at this because I'm thinking of copying the section to its author's talk page when deleting it. That seems like the polite thing to do.
EDIT #2: bewing last visited this forum 4 years ago, and was last active years before that. Not much chance of asking about it. I'll just dump it on his user talk page.
EDIT #3: 48-bit proposal removed and places on bewing's talk page.