Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 18:09:49 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ? Message-ID: <200103092309.f29N9na27176@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2001 19:56:29 %2B0100." <200103091856.TAA52748@info.iet.unipi.it> References: <200103091856.TAA52748@info.iet.unipi.it>
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> > > 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. So how about a options flag on the floppy driver which translates block addresses beyond 1440K into the "extra" sectors? I don't know that there's a "clean" way insert that into the driver, just glancing at the code.. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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