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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 1995 07:43:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: More serial console stuff...
Message-ID:  <199501251543.HAA25244@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199501250607.RAA18320@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 25, 95 05:07:52 pm

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> There is no standard way to decide how the drives are mapped.  We're
> not going to be able to decide without asking the user.

Only the bruteforce mode:

	In bootblock:
		make table of
			drive-id
			geometry
			checksum of sector #200
			checksum of sector #400
			checksum of sector #600

	In kernel
		find entry in table where checksums match...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)



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