Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:19:54 -0500 From: Jason Godfrey <godfreja@acm.cs.uwec.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!! Who can give me help?? Message-ID: <19990429151954.A1339@uwec.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990429152636.17041A-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:27:25PM -0400 References: <SIMEON.9904292028.D@csres11.essex.ac.uk> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990429152636.17041A-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:27:25PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Something you should take into consideration is that you won't be able to > boot if you are using the last 3 GB for FreeBSD. The root partition must > be located before the 1024th cyl in order to boot it. > > Kenneth Culver Is this still an issue with 3.1, or did the 3 stage loader fix the problem? I honestly don't know. I helped install 3.1 on a friend's computer that was already partitioned such that FreeBSD was to go > 1024. It worked fine, but I didn't have a chance to see if the BIOS was playing tricks to hide the fact. Thanks -- Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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