From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 17 10: 8:18 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B310E37B404; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C4B43EDC; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:08:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBHI8Dk5022986; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:08:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c From: phk@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:03:11 EST." Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:08:13 +0100 Message-ID: <22985.1040148493@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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