From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 24 10:45: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A5F37B8A7 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0996.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.195.231]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01028; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA03058; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:42:58 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: zruya avi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1024 Cylinder Message-ID: <20000624104258.A2881@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <000801bfddee$1f109a80$8469b3d4@moshe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000801bfddee$1f109a80$8469b3d4@moshe>; from zruya@netvision.net.il on Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 05:08:52PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 05:08:52PM +0200, zruya avi wrote: > I'm about to install freebsd 4, i would like to know if the freebsd boot loader supports > 1024 cylinder ( i'm running windows as well ), and if not could you tell me of a good unix boot loader that supports > 1024 cylinder . Problems with the 1024 cylinder limits are BIOS limitations, not the boot loader. The FreeBSD boot loader will work fine with a >1024 root partition if the BIOS can deal with it. If the BIOS can't... sorry, Charlie. I don't know how it would be possible to work around the BIOS limitation (short of moving a small partition within the 1024 limit) no matter how good the boot loader is. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message