Date: 30 Dec 2001 15:14:46 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. Message-ID: <1s3d1scnbt.d1s@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> References: <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>
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Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> writes: > I've found that FreeBSD is still "hogging" a primary partition/slice and I've > only got 4 partition within a slice, a-d being reserved and h being the > maximum. Why is it limited to h? I'll guess that there's a 8-bit field somewhere that would be awkward to "fix". > Last time I installed FreeBSD I recall that / was needed to be located below > 8GB for it to boot. Is this limitation still in act or am I free to boot from > anywhere on the drive? Can't find anything about it in the Handbook. According to boot0cfg's man page, it can be made to boot (search man page for "packet") past 1024 with an accommodating BIOS, but I think many (including me) have found that just having a BIOS that does LBA isn't enough and have resorted to using another boot loader. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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