From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 26 13:15:06 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA29212 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 13:15:06 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA29198 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 13:15:04 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA15822; Sat, 26 Aug 95 14:16:44 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508262016.AA15822@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: another 2.0.5 installation report To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 26 Aug 95 14:16:43 MDT In-Reply-To: <199508260636.IAA09535@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 26, 95 08:36:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > o the decision whether a file system is acceptable as a root fs should > > > be made based on the fdisk slot #, and not on the physical location > > > on the disk > > > > That's impossible. > > > > You must always consider a file system unacceptable as a root fs if it > > spans or exceeds BIOS cylinder 1023. > > No point here, the disk fakes to have 1024 cylinders. > > The above is really a bug. 1) Not all BIOS does translation. 2) Not all translation is equal. 3) You can't pound 9G of 512B sectors into 24 bits, no way, no how; the max is, and will remain, 8G, assuming you burn all C/H/S bits available to you. 4) Some BIOS are going to make the decision for you. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.