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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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