From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 04:40:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA04105 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:40:12 -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 EAA04075 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tXSU8-0003vlC; Wed, 3 Jan 96 04:40 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 NAA01220; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:40:03 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 22:11:33 +1100." <199601031111.WAA02552@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 13:40:03 +0100 Message-ID: <1218.820672803@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> 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...). In that case there isn't any bios-geometry, and I'm not asking for it. -- 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.