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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. 

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