Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 17:58:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisks Message-ID: <199605131558.RAA12996@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960512041152.21012B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at May 12, 96 04:19:21 am
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Tim Vanderhoek writes: > > On Sat, 11 May 1996, Doug White wrote: > >> Shouldn't be much of a problem, as long as the root partition is below >> 500MB or so. > > I see this number a lot, and I assumed this was because the partition > must be below 512MB in order to be bootable. However, my hdd is split > into one msdos partition, 1.1GB, and 430MB FreeBSD one. The dos > partition is first. The FreeBSD sure _seems_ bootable! (I haven't > actually tried it, because the floppy install bombed halfway and /kernel > wasn't copied yet, but the FreeBSD bootloader (is that the right term? I > mean that funky thing where you can enter '?' to get a file list of the > root directory, or enter -cCs etc) starts finely). Does the limit only > apply when you install something like OS-BS? No, the limit is due to severe brain damage in PC hardware, specifically IDE drives and the BIOS. You shouldn't have any such restriction with SCSI, and if your machine has a less restrictive BIOS, you won't have problems with IDE disks either. Greg
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