Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:36:49 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199602011836.TAA01691@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <5208.823117151@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 31, 96 08:39:11 pm
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> > > > ...but only if the swap space physically follows the boot partition. > > > > Nothing mandates this. > > > > > > And who but Terry would care about optimizing something like bad144 > > > anyway ??? > > > > Hello... 1024 cylinder limit... hello... old hardware... hello... > > Exactly. It works with the limitations stipulated. > > One way to do this on a 1024+ cyl disk is what I did: > > make one slice which is only for your root & swap (100 Mb ?) > > make another slice covering the rest of the disk. > > run bad144 on both. > > QED: no need to mess with the code. > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. Which indeed worked perfectly fine for me on a 1224 cyl ESDI. _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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