From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 17 10:41:35 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652FB37B404 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:41:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D4043ED8 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5667 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 18:41:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 17 Dec 2002 18:41:38 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBHIfVUT012750; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:41:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <22985.1040148493@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:41:31 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Dec-2002 phk@FreeBSD.org wrote: > In message , John Baldwin writes: > >>If you go read the ACPI spec (www.acpi.info) you will find >>on provisions for communicating BIOS geometries. > > That's what I remembered, but I havn't actually looked if any BIOS's > do that. Well, s/on/no/ (typo). I guess I don't understand your statement here unless you thought 'on' was 'one' or something. >>That said, I haven't heard of sysinstall screwing up geometry >>(aside from the 0 heads thing it currently has due to int32_t limits >>being exceeded I think) in a while so it may not be all that pressing >>of a matter. > > That was more or less the reasoning why I nuked the old stuff. Well, the reason was to get space in boot2. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message