Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:08:13 +0100 From: phk@FreeBSD.org To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <22985.1040148493@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:03:11 EST." <XFMail.20021217120311.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.20021217120311.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: >If you go read the ACPI spec (www.acpi.info) you will find >on provisions for communicating BIOS geometries. That's what I remembered, but I havn't actually looked if any BIOS's do that. >That said, I haven't heard of sysinstall screwing up geometry >(aside from the 0 heads thing it currently has due to int32_t limits >being exceeded I think) in a while so it may not be all that pressing >of a matter. That was more or less the reasoning why I nuked the old stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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