From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 20 23:24:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E5514BD3 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24422; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:13:54 -0700 (PDT) From: dmp@aracnet.com Message-ID: <37BE4577.BCFCDDD9@aracnet.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:21:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Manes Cc: "Le, Dat" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ben Manes wrote: > For FreeBSD, you'll have to do the same setup, because it just wont work. > I had to put it on a different drive when using my desktop, and gave up > on it on my laptop before I moved all the partitions. For FreeBSD, I believe you just have to get the root partition under the 1024th cylinder. One trick that works for me is a slight mod on the solution you gave: make two slices for FreeBSD. The first slice goes at the front of the disk and holds the root partition. The second can go whereever, and holds the remaining partitions. The resulting disk layout would look something like: 1st: FreeBSD root partition 2nd: Linux /boot partition 3rd: FreeBSD's remaining partitions 4th: Linux's remaining partition(s) 5th: Win98 (spanning 1024th cylinder) 6th: WinNT > So, here's a potential layout. Remember, the 1,024 cylinder limit is at > about 8.4gb on LBA mode (right?). 8,422,686,720 bytes. According to drive makers, that's 8.4gB. According to the computer, exactly 8032.5MB. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message