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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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