From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 19:15:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA04107 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 19:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA04095 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 19:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA17337; Mon, 13 May 1996 11:53:02 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605130223.LAA17337@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: harddisks To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:53:01 +0930 (CST) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Tim Vanderhoek" at May 12, 96 04:19:21 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[