Re: ACPI project progress report

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
: Can we guarantee that we can find this area?  On eg. the Dell i7500 that 
: I've been playing most with, it's a file on a FAT filesystem, and the 
: BIOS will only "find" it if the filesystem is in the 'active' partition 
: at boot time.

Generally we cannot guarnatee that.  IIRC, there's lots of variation.
Usually it is just a partition, but sometimes it is the last N
cylenders of the disk, and sometimes it is a file like you say.  It
would at the very least need to be configured...

Warner


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