Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:53:48 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <1078.820666428@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 21:37:53 %2B1100." <199601031037.VAA01278@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >NTDETECT runs in real mode and probes the HW. > > >> when probed is a black art. Any black magicians out there interested > >> in starting a `FreeBSD Detect 1.0' project? :-) > > >We should do this. > > >This is the only way we can hope to solve the bios-geometry problem > >for instance. > > Erm, the BIOS geometry problem is entirely in software, and "probing" of > the BIOS geometry has already been implemented by someone named phk :-). > (The problem is that association of BIOS disk numbers with FreeBSD > disk names isn't really implemented.) And cannot be done reliably, unless you can actually read a couple of sectors using the bios :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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