Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:24:34 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601031424.BAA09953@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> The problem is not the general case, it's the worst case. I guess the >> question is whether the worst case is worth worrying about... 8) >No, I doubt that. I expect the above loop to finish in < 3 sectors >in 99.999% of the cases where it matters. >(if the bios reports same geometry for two disks, then we don't care >if they are identical, since it will not confuse us. We just need >a signature for each bios-geometry :-) We need a unique signature for converting the BIOS boot drive number to the FreeBSD root drive name. Bruce
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