Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:50:41 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601031220.WAA07603@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1078.820666428@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 3, 96 11:53:48 am
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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > 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 :-) THe problem is not reading the sectors, but which sectors to read. 0 is obviously a good choice, but 1..(s-1) are boring, and from there in it's a tough call. There are a few "better" ways perhaps to look for more unique things, but you'll still be screwed by two identical disks with identical contents 8( > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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