Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:53:01 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: harddisks Message-ID: <199605130223.LAA17337@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960512041152.21012B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at May 12, 96 04:19:21 am
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Tim Vanderhoek stands accused of saying: > > > Shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as the root partition is below > > 500MB or so. > > I see this number a lot, and I assumed this was because the partition > must be below 512MB in order to be bootable. However, my hdd is split > into one msdos partition, 1.1GB, and 430MB FreeBSD one. The dos > partition is first. The FreeBSD sure _seems_ bootable! (I haven't > actually tried it, because the floppy install bombed halfway and /kernel > wasn't copied yet, but the FreeBSD bootloader (is that the right term? I > mean that funky thing where you can enter '?' to get a file list of the > root directory, or enter -cCs etc) starts finely). Does the limit only > apply when you install something like OS-BS? The limit applies when you have a BIOS that doesn't understand cylinder offsets greater than 1024. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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