Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 13:54:08 +0200 From: gwk@crmunich0.cray.com (Georg-Wilhelm Koltermann) To: rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LBA and Large IDE driver with 2.1R Message-ID: <9606041154.AA10906@crmunich0> In-Reply-To: <199606040154.VAA09475@elmer.picker.com> (rhh@ct.picker.com)
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> JULIAN Elischer: > >The slice can be > 512 MB if it is not the BOOTING slice/partition > >> > >> I have FreeBSD 2.1.0-STABLE running fine on a 1.6 Gig disk, and all of > >> the FreeBSD slice lives up on the high 815 meg of the disk. I'm running > >> LBA on an Asus P55TP4XE (dual IDE onboard), and using OS/BS Beta to boot > >> this FreeBSD slice and all the others on this WD31600 as well as my WD31200 > >> on wd0. I have had 0 problems -- FreeBSD seems to pick up the translated > >> geometry and life is good. > Well, I run 960501-SNAP on my new box without a problem. First 700 MB is taken by Win95, next is OS/2's boot manager partition, then some 900 MB for the extended "partition", and then finally about 400 MB for the FreeBSD system slice (there's are also a FreeBSD data slice in the extended "partition", carrying /home and /src filesystems). The boot loader is OS/2's boot manager, but I seem to remember that I briefly tried the FreeBSD boot selector as well. I haven't seen ANY problems, works just fine. The motherboard is ASUS Pentium T2P4 (430HX). LBA is supported by the ROM BIOS. Georg-W. Koltermann, gwk@cray.com
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