Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:24:06 +0200 From: CooCoo Channel <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: devvnull@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large disk and /boot partition Message-ID: <3999A6E6.DEE9E957@gmx.de> References: <00081403024200.03468@charon> <39994413.3758AD5F@gmx.de> <20000814182454.A2425@bossa.org>
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Hi Erik, > > Do you try to avoid the 1024 cylinder boundary? If yes, this isn=B4t > > necessary anymore. New Lilo as well as new FreeBSD bootloader know to= > > boot of partitions (slices) higher than 1024 cylinders. > = > I am not sure if this is true of lilo ( which is managing my MBR); as > recently as a month of so ago I did an install that failed because we > were just over the limit, which is ususally about 8 GIG's on newer > drives. The problem as I understand it is not lilo's is the PC BIOS whi= ch > lilo needs to use to read the map files and load the second stage loade= r > and so on. But I could be wrong here; there may be a _very_ new version= > that I haven't used yet. Lilo is able to do it from version 21.3 on. Look at: ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/CHANGES.txt According to this the changes will appear in the man-pages only from 21.5 on. It=B4s not in my man-page of version 21.4-3. You will need option = lba32 in lilo.conf. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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