Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:41:31 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <XFMail.20021217134131.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <22985.1040148493@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 17-Dec-2002 phk@FreeBSD.org wrote: > 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. Well, s/on/no/ (typo). I guess I don't understand your statement here unless you thought 'on' was 'one' or something. >>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. Well, the reason was to get space in boot2. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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