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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:25:51 +0100
From:      phk@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c 
Message-ID:  <2340.1040055951@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:20:15 EST." <XFMail.20021216112015.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.20021216112015.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>
>On 14-Dec-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> phk         2002/12/14 09:34:28 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/boot/i386/boot2  boot2.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Don't fill in the table with the BIOS idea about disk-geometry, we don't
>>   use it.  This saves a surprising number of bytes.
>
>It might be nice to use it at some point to improve sysinstall's geometry
>guesses.  At least that was the plan.

Well, ACPI can tell us too, and that will even tell which drive is which,
something this old hack didn't tell us.

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