Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 13:40:03 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <1218.820672803@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 22:11:33 %2B1100." <199601031111.WAA02552@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> 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 :-) > > If you disabled the drive then both probing the drive and reading it > will fail. It isn't fair to ask FreeBSD to determine the BIOS geometry > in that case. The geometry might depend on how the drive is enabled > (with or without boot manager...). In that case there isn't any bios-geometry, and I'm not asking for it. -- 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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