From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 25 23:47:40 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA23521 for current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 23:47:40 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA23500 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 23:47:37 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA01681 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:47:34 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA23959 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:47:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA09535 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:36:51 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508260636.IAA09535@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: another 2.0.5 installation report To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:36:50 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9508260015.AA13420@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 25, 95 06:15:35 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 559 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > o the decision whether a file system is acceptable as a root fs should > > be made based on the fdisk slot #, and not on the physical location > > on the disk > > That's impossible. > > You must always consider a file system unacceptable as a root fs if it > spans or exceeds BIOS cylinder 1023. No point here, the disk fakes to have 1024 cylinders. The above is really a bug. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)