From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 16: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3407237B6FD for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 16:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:52828 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Wed, 31 May 2000 00:59:51 +0200 Received: (qmail 47745 invoked by uid 1001); 30 May 2000 22:59:55 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:59:55 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Christoph Sold Cc: HarDBooT , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 install problem Message-ID: <20000531005955.A47727@student.csd.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Sold , HarDBooT , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3934431C.1A60B570@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3934431C.1A60B570@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:39:24AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:39:24AM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > FreeBSD, as Winblows, wants to have its boot partition within the very > first two Gig of any drive. It seems you experienced fdisk reporting the > fact. > Nope. FreeBSD just need to have its boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders. (AFAIK this is true for Windows too.) Depending on how old the BIOS is this is either below the 504MB limit (for old BIOS) or below 8GB (for newer BIOS). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message