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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:59:04 -0500
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        "John Conover" <conover@rahul.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD boot loader?
Message-ID:  <opskkk4qjt0cf2rk@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <20050113090242.1784.qmail@rahul.net>
References:  <20050113090242.1784.qmail@rahul.net>

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On 13 Jan 2005 09:02:42 -0000, John Conover <conover@rahul.net> wrote:

>
> 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.

Somewhere between 1997 and 1999 this stopped being a problem for FreeBSD,  
which will boot from anywhere the BIOS allows it to.  See <URL:  
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html>.

Jud



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