Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:22:51 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199601301452.BAA15227@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601300917.KAA09302@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 30, 96 10:13:17 am
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Greg Lehey stands accused of saying:
> I'd like to confirm this. It's my understanding that the only reason
> to require partitions to be below the magic 1024 cylinder limit is if
> they are bootable, so that the BIOS can address them. In this
Correct.
> particular situation, you could do this by putting the primary DOS
> partition, one of the UNIX slices ("partitions" in DOS terminology)
> completely within the first 1024 cylinders, and the other UNIX slice
> sufficiently in the first 1024 cylinders that the root partition is
> below the limit. The rest of the disk would include the rest of the
> second UNIX slice and the DOS extended partition.
I'm not sure I see the picture you're painting here. From FreeBSD's point
of view, the following must be met :
1) The entire root filesystem must be below the 1024 cylinder mark.
2) If bad144 bad-sector marking has been used (uncommon), the entire BSD
slice must be below the 1024 cylinder mark.
> Greg
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