From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 9 15:51:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19795 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:51:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA19785 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA04469 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:50:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id AAA15983; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:21:59 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:21:59 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS partition trouble References: <199702062140.IAA05338@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199702092030.NAA25138@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702092030.NAA25138@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Feb 9, 1997 13:30:29 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > When will we start using LBA's in the boot code, and ignoring the > C/H/S portion of the partition table? You can't, as long you're stuck with a BIOS that wants C/H/S in its int 0x13 calls. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)