From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 15:01:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA12616A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:01:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0C443D45 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:01:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0DF1NC28981; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:01:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200501131501.j0DF1NC28981@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: conover@rahul.net Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:01:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050113090242.1784.qmail@rahul.net> from "John Conover" at Jan 13, 2005 09:02:42 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD boot loader? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:01:29 -0000 > > > Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot > PC system using the FBSD boot loader? > > I presume there is, but I couldn't find it in the handbook. Maybe I > missed it. > Not if you have a reasonably recent BIOS. FreeBSD can handle it just fine as long as the BIOS can deal with it to get started. This is a question handled often and I believe there is a FAQ on it that can explain it much better than I can. ////jerry > Thanks, > > John > > -- > > John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/