From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 21:04:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDA516A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:04:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED87D43D5A for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:04:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i7PL4aiD060836; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:04:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:04:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Gerald S. Stoller" Message-ID: <20040825210436.GC29584@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable version of FreeBSD 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:04:37 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 25), Gerald S. Stoller said: > I have the impression from reading the McGraw Hill book on this version > ("The Complete Reference FreeBSD") that the 1024 cylinder limit (in the > boot loader) may have gone away with this release. Is that true, and if > so, what is the new limit? Any other significant changes? Also, about > when is this release due to come out? The 1024-cylinder limit hasn't been a problem for years. I believe the loader has always supported it, and the boot block has a "packet" mode you can turn on that lets you boot from partitions that start past the 1024-cyl limit. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com