From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 00:16:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA26582 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:16:35 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26576; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:16:33 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA04410; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:15:49 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503220815.AAA04410@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:15:48 -0800 (PST) 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 In-Reply-To: <199503220741.RAA06611@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 22, 95 05:41:06 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 749 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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 -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'