From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 9 10:58:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7BA37B71A for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:58:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA52748; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:56:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200103091856.TAA52748@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ? In-Reply-To: <20010309183159.C761@tao.org.uk> from Josef Karthauser at "Mar 9, 2001 06:31:59 pm" To: Josef Karthauser Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:56:29 +0100 (CET) Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel > > needs far more than 10 cylinders... > > What about /boot/loader? Does that use the bios also? Can't we build > one with a modified fd0 in it? yes it uses the bios, and it is large enough (100+ KB compressed if you include forth, ~70KB without) to kill most of the savings coming from this trick. cheers luigi, who has been fighting with space on picobsd images for a while :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message