Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ?

[Josef Karthauser]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:05:58PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > It would be possible to teach the floppy driver that cyl 0-9 has
> > 18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21.
> 
> this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
> needs far more than 10 cylinders...

What about /boot/loader?  Does that use the bios also?  Can't we build
one with a modified fd0 in it?

Joe

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