WinNT compatible drive tagging so that the 3rd stage can provide an accurate mapping of BIOS geometries for disks

Simon Dick simond at irrelevant.org
Wed Aug 8 11:51:42 UTC 2012


On 8 August 2012 10:20, Volodymyr Shcherbyna <volodymyr at shcherbyna.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Thanks for making FreeBSD so good OS. I would like to contribute to FreeBSD
> and among high priority tasks I have found the one in the subject of this
> mail (source: http://doc.ctrlaltdel.ch/freebsd/handbook/contrib.html).
>
> Unfortunately, I did not find any details regarding specifications of the
> task as well as no information regarding accomplished progress in this
> direction. Can you please share with me this info? I.e., what have been
> done, what has to be done, and what are the goals?

I think you may want to check the age of that handbook site,
especially as the linux emulation part mentions stuff about installing
on 2.1-STABLE so the issue you're asking about is probably no longer
an issue in the first place.


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