Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 02:22:33 +0000 From: "Terje Oseberg" <oseberg@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Loader Hard Disk Size Limitations Message-ID: <F55EXuztk9v9Qggq8tO00006943@hotmail.com>
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About a year ago, I installed FreeBSD 4.0 onto a 60 gig hard drive and thus discovered that the Boot Loader does not support very large hard disks. Now it appears that FreeBSD 4.5 is available, but after searching google and freebsd.org and all the release notes from 4.0 to 4.5, I've found nothing that says anything about hard disk size limitations. I did however find, "The FreeBSD boot loader is now capable of booting from filesystems with 16K disk blocks (the old limit was 8K)." on the http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/relnotes-i386.html#AEN77 page and, "The FreeBSD boot loader is now capable of booting from filesystems with block sizes larger than 8K. [MERGED]" on the http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/DP1/relnotes-i386.html page. I'm wondering if these changes might allow FreeBSD to boot from very large hard disks. I would like to boot from an 80GB drive. A year ago when I installed FreeBSD 4.0 on a 60GB hard disk, and found that the boot loader didn't work, my solution was to have FreeBSD boot from a 100Meg hard drive and use the 60GB for all the other partitions. This worked fine, but this time there will be no room for any extra hard drives in the system. I hope that someone can shed some light on this issue. Thanks, Terje _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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