From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 2:27:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E3414CEF for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:27:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip175.r7.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.173.175]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA08709 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 02:27:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <386F276D.93082CA3@nwlink.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 02:24:45 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: still partition/slice restrictions? References: <001101bf54fc$0c431d40$8001a8c0@jayk-home3nt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jay Krell wrote: > > 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). How hard would it be to create a PC BIOS that is oriented toward the BSD or Linux crowd? It seems that with resources freely available such as OSKit it would not be that difficult. I'd like to see a BIOS that has its own lightweight repair shell so you wouldn't need boot floppies in times of trouble. Any ideas? -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message