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Date:      Thu, 11 May 1995 09:18:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, mark@linus.demon.co.uk
Subject:   Re: problem with new biosboot?
Message-ID:  <199505111618.JAA29332@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505110607.QAA07289@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 11, 95 04:07:55 pm

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> >                /* 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.

DUH!

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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