From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 12: 0:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C85537B408 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 12:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4NIvIJ14975; Thu, 23 May 2002 15:57:18 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:57:18 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser X-X-Sender: To: Jez Hancock Cc: Subject: Re: Cylinder 1024 Limit vs LBA Disk Drive mapping In-Reply-To: <20020523154456.B11176@munkboxen.mine.nu> Message-ID: <20020523155221.J13457-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 23 May 2002, Jez Hancock wrote: > 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 I never had a problem. I have FreeBSD on the second partition on the slave drive on the secondary controller, and it boots and run fine. I've been using it that way for the past 5 years, on three different motherboards. I may be wrong, but that problems seem more of a "pilot error" than a FreeBSD-specific problem. Fer > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message