Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 11:44:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, phk@critter.tfs.com, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601031844.LAA15147@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601031424.BAA09953@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 4, 96 01:24:34 am
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> >(if the bios reports same geometry for two disks, then we don't care > >if they are identical, since it will not confuse us. We just need > >a signature for each bios-geometry :-) > > We need a unique signature for converting the BIOS boot drive number to > the FreeBSD root drive name. You need it for all drives: dos_newfs dos_mount dos_fsck ... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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