Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:56:29 +0100 (CET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ? Message-ID: <200103091856.TAA52748@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20010309183159.C761@tao.org.uk> from Josef Karthauser at "Mar 9, 2001 06:31:59 pm"
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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.
cheers
luigi, who has been fighting with space on picobsd images for a while :(
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