Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:46:44 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <36975DC4.ED39AE52@uk.radan.com> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <3695BDCA.DF6317A2@uk.radan.com> <19990109095916.K96705@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 8 January 1999 at 8:11:54 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > FWIW, I would suggest that large HD's (multi-GB), LBA, the infamous > > 1024 cyl limit etc. are addressed. e.g. that you can install FreeBSD > > above 1024 cyls on an (E)IDE disk using LBA and on SCSI if you boot > > from the first partition with a boot mangler. The partition schemes in > > the book only cover small disks IIRC. > > There's no distinction between small disks and large disks. The only > problems are with the system BIOS. But booting in 3.0 is very > different (and it still hasn't finished changing :-). This will > definitely be a topic in the new edition. > Perhaps I didn't word it as well as I could have but that's what I was meaning, the way the BIOS affects the usability of large HD's. I suggested it because I gave a friend a set of the free 2.2.6 CD's and lent him my CFBSD. He wants to install FreeBSD after a 500MB Windows partition. He read in CFBSD (p35-36) that ``/'' must end before 1024 cyls. and the solution is to split the DOS partition, which he doesn't want to do. I was suggesting that this bit should make reference to LBA BIOSes. Although my FreeBSD partition starts at 256MB I have seen plenty of messages in the list that include things like "....I have a 2GB disk partitioned as 800MB DOS partition and a 1.2GB FreeBSD partiton...." so it is possible to install FreeBSD past the 1024 cyl limit with LBA. > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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