Subject: BIOS gemoetry for i386 bootloader
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/11/1998 15:57:49
        Had a real pain trying to get the 1.3I snapshot installed on an
        NCR based scsi machine here. Ended up having to run pfdisk to get
        the BIOS geometry (no other way), plugging that information in
        and all worked fine.

        Would it be possible (and acceptable) to modify the i386
        bootblocks to print out the disk geometry for the boot disk?

	Having to boot a DOS floppy and some other tool to get that
	information leaves us with something of a wet sucking noise...

                David/absolute

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