Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 12:39:03 +0100 From: Mark Valentine <mark@linus.demon.co.uk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with new biosboot? Message-ID: <199505111139.MAA00400@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of May 11, 4:07pm
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> From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
> Date: Thu 11 May, 1995
> Subject: Re: problem with new biosboot?
> > /* This is a good idea for all disks */
> > bsize = dl->d_partitions[part].p_size;
> > bend = boff + bsize - 1 ;
> > if (bend / spt > 1024) {
> ^^^
> > printf("partition is out of reach from the bios\n");
> > return 1;
> > }
>
> spc should work better :-). It's amazing that spt often works. It works
> here because bend = 32767 and spt = 32 on one system and 52 on another.
Indeed, it certainly works better for me. :-)
Thank you!
Mark.
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