Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:15:48 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? Message-ID: <199503220815.AAA04410@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503220741.RAA06611@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 22, 95 05:41:06 pm
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> >The bios geometry is already read in the bootblocks. do a "boot -v" > > I know about this, but other people may not, and fdisk and sysinstall > certainly don't. There is no standard interface to the info, and > the programs don't try to read it from kmem. Even if they did, they > can't rely on it because old boot loaders and the netboot loader don't > initialize it. I know. I did it. I was merely trying to point out that we >DO< have the info. Also the strangeness of the format is because I didn't want to do more work in the bootblocks than I had to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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