From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 4 04:54:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA06908 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 04:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from timbuk.cray.com (root@timbuk.cray.com [128.162.19.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA06899 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 04:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crmunich0 (gwk@crmunich0.cray.com [134.14.1.1]) by timbuk.cray.com (8.7.5/CRI-gate-8-2.11) with SMTP id GAA16383 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 06:54:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: by crmunich0 id AA10906; 4.1/CRI-5.6a; Tue, 4 Jun 96 13:54:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 13:54:08 +0200 From: gwk@crmunich0.cray.com (Georg-Wilhelm Koltermann) Message-Id: <9606041154.AA10906@crmunich0> To: rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606040154.VAA09475@elmer.picker.com> (rhh@ct.picker.com) Subject: Re: LBA and Large IDE driver with 2.1R Reply-To: gwk@cray.com Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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