From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 29 13:13:33 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA05415 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:13:33 -0800 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA05409 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:13:28 -0800 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA17400; Thu, 29 Dec 94 21:13:02 GMT Received: from woody.fsl.noaa.gov by yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov (1.37.109.14/SMI-4.1 (1.37.109.14)) id AA239615580; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 16:13:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 16:13:00 -0500 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <199412292113.AA239615580@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by woody.fsl.noaa.gov (1.37.109.14/SMI-4.1 (1.37.109.14)) id AA037515569; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:12:49 -0700 To: timmy@mercury.sfsu.edu Cc: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: (message from Timmy Wong on Thu, 29 Dec 1994 10:53:15 -0800 (PST)) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Problems Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Timmy" == Timmy Wong writes: Timmy> Hmmm, what happened if I formatted the drive for dos Timmy> under LBA? Is it supposed to work? Like I installed 300 Timmy> mb's under dos with the system bioses LBA Translation and Timmy> then the rest for FreeBSD. Thanks for the idea though. I did exactly that with DOS already installed when I installed FreeBSD on my machinq. Strangely enough, DOS didn't seem to mind at all! Reads and writes under DOS with the now deactivated LBA mapping worked just as they did before. And they didn't interfere with FreeBSD, and vice versa. I'm only guessing, but it might've been something to do with DOS ending well below cyl 1024, but who knows? --k