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Date:      Sat, 17 May 2003 17:36:11 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.0-R won't boot partition 60G into a drive
Message-ID:  <20030517153611.GB27368@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030517153042.GA27368@starjuice.net>
References:  <200305170123.24631.cbiffle@safety.net> <20030517153042.GA27368@starjuice.net>

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On (2003/05/17 17:30), Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> For as long as I remember, FreeBSD has had issues booting a kernel
> beyond the first 1GB of a disk.  Some time last year, changes were made
> that allowed for this, but they were backed out because they caused
> other problems, and I don't remember them being brought back in.

See Alexander's reply involving the use of the disk packet interface,
which I completely missed when it was imported, and which looks cool.

Ciao,
Sheldon.



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