Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:47:06 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dutchman@spase.nl, terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Glitch in install procedure. Message-ID: <199605210547.PAA23269@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I just installed FreeBSD as a secondary OS on a machine. I dumped it into the >> upper 300 Mb of a 810 Mb disk. Funny thing is that neither the installation >> procedure, nor booteasy issued a warning that it would not be possible to >> actually boot from the partition, as it is beyond the reach of the BIOS. >That's because it couldn't ask BIOS to tell it what was good. Actually, it's because it couldn't ask ufs for where the blocks in /kernel are. It knows what the BIOS geometry is supposed to be since it just created a partition table that usually won't work unless you told it the BIOS geometry. >Silly FreeBSD, trusted you to know what you were doing. 8-). It's a feature that you can write /kernel on a file system whose partition has BIOS cylinders >= 1024. Silly BSD allows writing to such file systems :-). (Except possibly at install time, there is nothing special about /kernel.). Bruce
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