From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 14:29:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepB.post.tele.dk (fepB.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF12B37B417 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([62.243.18.146]) by fepB.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011230222939.XXUH22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:29:39 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: jud@operamail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:30:30 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <8FD1Y87KFKJLKUTGVS61VPJESPDCID.3c2f7558@sparky> In-Reply-To: <8FD1Y87KFKJLKUTGVS61VPJESPDCID.3c2f7558@sparky> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011230222939.XXUH22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 30 December 2001 21:13, Jud wrote: > Tried QNX? I haven't, and I'm a bit curious. Yes, but not extensively (especially since the last version broke PS/2-mouse). Apart from lack of software there are some really neat features and ideas. Like the photon-gui and file-repository (kinda like compiled ports). > The last I saw, the 1024th cylinder limitation was still in effect if using > FBSD's bootloader, though someone else may know different. GRUB, > which I've only used a short time but am quite happy with, says it will > boot an OS beyond the 1024th cylinder if your disks do LBA. LBA isn't > exactly a new thing, so I assume this will work for most people. Hmm... I thought it wass the OS itself that imposed that limitation and not the bootloader... gotta test this... ;) > I'm about to try converting much of my W2K space to dynamic volumes > and installing FBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder, so if I don't completely > screw up my system in the process, I'll let folks know how it went. I'll await your report! ;) Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message