From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 16:48:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA1B37B9BE for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:48:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA52180; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:48:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:48:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Ronald Klop Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large Disk Access Mode In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ronald Klop wrote: > Hello, > > In my BIOS is an option "Large Disk Access Mode" with as values "DOS" and > "other". The help states that if you're using DOS you should select > "DOS" and if you're using UNIX, Novell, etc. you should use "Other". This > changes the representation of the drive geometry of the BIOS. > I want to make a dualboot machine, with win95 and FreeBSD 4.0. Which > option should I select? > > Do I have to set this to "DOS", because FreeBSD doesn't look at BIOS > geometries? I'm assuming from context that you have both OS'es on the same disk. If that's so, use the DOS setting. Both OS'es should do the right thing. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message