Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:11:33 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601031111.WAA02552@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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 :-) If you disabled the drive then both probing the drive and reading it will fail. It isn't fair to ask FreeBSD to determine the BIOS geometry in that case. The geometry might depend on how the drive is enabled (with or without boot manager...). Bruce
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