From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 0:54:29 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 00:54:27 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E685B37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22171; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:54:22 +0100 (MET) Sender: coocoo@rz.uni-ulm.de Message-ID: <3A31F33D.173C6BF2@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 09:54:21 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: armand Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Magic, Windows 98 & FreeBSD References: <200012090622.eB96M2l19054@tbird.iworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Armand, > so am wondering even if I successfully install FreeBSD, will > it boot from beyond the 1024 cylinder? In Addition to Kent: If the 1024 cylinder boundary really troubles you because of some strange CHS translation, note that the primary slice you create with Partition Magic can be divided into (Unix) partitions. Only the / partition has to be completely under the 1024 cylinder boundary. As Kent said, it would be better to have only / and a swap partition as Unix partitions inside your one primary slice to avoid wasting space. Murphy´s law states, that it´s always the partition with the smallest freespace, that is needed most :-) And your 1,4 GB isn´t very much indeed. So if really 1024 cylinder matters, think of reinstalling Win also with a LBA translation of your disk then in your BIOS (i.e. 63 sectors and 255 heads per cylinder => 1024 cylinder thus being around 8 GB). Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message