From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 02:53:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA29124 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 02:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA29115 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 02:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tXQpJ-0003vrC; Wed, 3 Jan 96 02:53 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA01080; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 11:53:48 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 21:37:53 +1100." <199601031037.VAA01278@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:53:48 +0100 Message-ID: <1078.820666428@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >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.) And cannot be done reliably, unless you can actually read a couple of sectors using the bios :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.