From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 7:45:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from munkboxen.mine.nu (213-152-51-194.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.51.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9ABA37B40F for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 07:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from munk@localhost) by munkboxen.mine.nu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4NEivf11201 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 May 2002 15:44:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from munk) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:44:57 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cylinder 1024 Limit vs LBA Disk Drive mapping Message-ID: <20020523154456.B11176@munkboxen.mine.nu> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <0D6CE218BF54D211B37F00E0292657F40CEAD617@susdayte03.daytonoh.ncr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <0D6CE218BF54D211B37F00E0292657F40CEAD617@susdayte03.daytonoh.ncr.com>; from MH125685@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com on Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:37:41AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:37:41AM -0400, Hurley, Michael wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a modern system with both IDE drives mapped using LBA, so the BIOS > has no problem short of about 120GB. > I will be using either GRUB or V-Communications' "System Commander" as a > Boot loader. > Does the < Cylinder 1024 Boot Partition limitation apply? Since the second > drive is used now for expansion space & swap partitions, I can, if necessary > rearrange things there and install FreeBSD in the first partition there. > I'd prefer to install FreeBSD above 12GB on the first drive. In my experience helping out in a freebsd based IRC channel, people have untold problems installing freebsd to anything other than the first partition on the first drive on the first ide controller! I did have quite a few problems when I first tentatively installed freebsd as a 'dual boot' OS with linux on the first partition... as such I removed linux totally and moved over to freebsd - never looked back:) My usual advise is to dedicate a whole machine to freebsd if possible - once you have it up and running you don't want to turn it off anyway :) In general though, you will have problems installing to a partition that is past the 1024 cylinder mark though (although you could try it just to see how much pain it is:). Good luck, -- Jez Hancock - munk@munkboxen.mine.nu http://munkboxen.mine.nu - FreeBSD network http://www.freebsd.org - Probably the best OS in the world... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message