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

[Luigi Rizzo]

> > 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?

yes it uses the bios, and it is large enough (100+ KB compressed if
you include forth, ~70KB without) to kill most of the savings coming
from this trick.

    cheers
    luigi, who has been fighting with space on picobsd images for a while :(

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