In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luigi Rizzo writes:
>> What about having the first few tracks, ie. the boot area, 18 sectors,
>> and the rest of the disk 21 sectors, and have the boot code/kernel do
>> the right thing? Isn't this easier?
>
>It has all sorts of problems: neither the bios nor the disklabel
>nor the kernel can handle variable length tracks, plus the bootloader
>(boot2 and /boot/loader) still uses the bios, so the whole area
>containing the kernel would need to be 18 sectors, and the kernel
>on picobsd is almost as large as the whole disk...
It would be possible to teach the floppy driver that cyl 0-9 has
18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21.
A small matter of hacking...
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