Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:58:55 +0100 (CET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ? Message-ID: <200103091058.LAA48632@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20010309105151.B40040@tao.org.uk> from Josef Karthauser at "Mar 9, 2001 10:51:52 am"
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> What about having the first few tracks, ie. the boot area, 18 sectors, > and the rest of the disk 21 sectors, and have the boot code/kernel do > the right thing? Isn't this easier? It has all sorts of problems: neither the bios nor the disklabel nor the kernel can handle variable length tracks, plus the bootloader (boot2 and /boot/loader) still uses the bios, so the whole area containing the kernel would need to be 18 sectors, and the kernel on picobsd is almost as large as the whole disk... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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