From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 2:42:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.otenet.gr (ns1.otenet.gr [195.170.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07F037B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux.gr (patr530-a151.otenet.gr [212.205.215.151]) by ns1.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9K9gPB00237 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:42:26 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <39F012D7.DDFF247D@linux.gr> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:39:35 +0300 From: DJ Art Organization: HELLUG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The >1023 cyl. problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I need to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on a hard drive (20 GB) beyond the 1024th cylinder (actually, I need to make the slice at cylinders 2222-2482) I know that FreeBSD cannot boot from there, I have gone through the archives and the mails saying "You cannot boot ... etc etc". I want to ask 2 things: 1) Is there any workaround for this ??? 2) I've gone through the Release Notes of 4.1-RELEASE and they say that this problem is solved. So, if I install a version >= 4.1-RELEASE I will not have any problems, right ??? If that's right, can I download specially something (rather small in size) from the 4.1 or even the current branch and "fix" the 4.0-RELEASE version ?? PS: I prefer using LiLO, but I don't care if I will have to use BootEasy. -- DJ Art (aka Kyritsis Athanasios) Studying Electrical & Computer Engineering @ UPatras http://members.hellug.gr/djart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message