Re: dd and mbr

From: Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg_at_tristatelogic.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:30:24 UTC 
In message <20220111192642.937bfcdc22b00a386009fdd7@sohara.org>, 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:

>	As you have found fdisk is one weird piece of software, it's faking
>up a default because it read invalid data - the default being what you want
>if you're going to install FreeBSD on the whole thing.

That's bad.  It shouldn't do that.

Isn't life already hard enough without having our software tools lie
to us?