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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!] Date: 7 Apr 1996 01:31:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4k75u3$er6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hqav8$kmo@nntp.interaccess.com> <3140F2B6.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4i1qp4$bmj@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4i50q6$64i@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4i727m$1hl@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4j0mhb$r6i@calypso.bns.com.au> <31559EE7.59E2B600@freebsd.org> <4ja7fp$b6h@hole.sdsu.edu> <31595019.59E2B600@freebsd.org> <4jbvue$fdl@hole.sdsu.edu> <4jfhlv$kt1@park.uvsc.edu> <4jlm89$7bm@calypso.bns.com.au> <4jptra$4h4@calypso.bns.com.au> <4jvbtg$mih@park.uvsc.edu> <4k5mdu$9ma@news1.halcyon.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: > >How can Linux/BSD know the right geometry without loading the > >same driver and making VM86() calls through that driver? > > Read sector 0, examine the partition map, and see which geometry is > consistent with what you found there. What if sector 0 contains nothing but garbage? (Ok, this won't be a DOS drive then either.) Which sector 0 to read for which BIOS device? Is the BIOS device 0x82 wd2, sd2, sd1, or sd0? -- 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. ;-)