On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...

On my vaio it's a separate partition on the disk of type 160 (which
partition magic calls "save to disk").

Joe


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