Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:11:38 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisks Message-ID: <199605131811.LAA00465@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 May 1996 04:19:21 EDT." <Pine.SOL.3.91.960512041152.21012B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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> > 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? It's a BIOS limitation. Some BIOSes can't read "EIDE" disks, which are larger than 512MB, cylinder 1024 actually. These need a translator that is installed in the MBR to translate the accesses appropriately. Others, like the Phoenix in my Pent, can handle it no problem. Yours apparently can deal with it. -------- Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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