From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 0:33:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC5614EBA for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 00:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jay.krell@cornell.edu) Received: from jayk-home3nt (user-2ini8rq.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.35.122]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA07036 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 03:33:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001101bf54fc$0c431d40$8001a8c0@jayk-home3nt> From: "Jay Krell" To: Subject: still partition/slice restrictions? Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 00:33:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN585 Q: Any restrictions on how I divide the disk up? A: Yes. You must make sure that your root partition is below 1024 cylinders so the BIOS can boot the kernel from it. (Note that this is a limitation in the PC's BIOS, not FreeBSD). For a SCSI drive, this will normally imply that the root partition will be in the first 1024MB (or in the first 4096MB if extended translation is turned on - see previous question). For IDE, the corresponding figure is 504MB. -- Is this still true? /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 uses int13 extensions if they are present. Is that sufficient to break this restriction? Can I just have one large filesystem using up an entire drive? I dislike the fragmentation of partitioning, /var just filled up while /usr has space, and a kernel with symbols doesn't fit in /.. How can I tell if my system has the int13 extensions ("old" Pentium Pro 200..)? - Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message