Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:37:53 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601031037.VAA01278@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>NTDETECT runs in real mode and probes the HW. >> when probed is a black art. Any black magicians out there interested >> in starting a `FreeBSD Detect 1.0' project? :-) >We should do this. >This is the only way we can hope to solve the bios-geometry problem >for instance. 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.) Bruce
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