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Subject: Re: 5.0-R won't boot partition 60G into a drive
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On Sat, May 17, 2003, 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.

Are you sure you don't mean 2 TB?  BIOS limitations aside, it
should work up to the terabyte range.