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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ?
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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

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