From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 15:13:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B6B37B41F for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFABBD29; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15150; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:13:18 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBUNEkg33061; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. References: <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 30 Dec 2001 15:14:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011230081401.TXVI22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> Message-ID: <1s3d1scnbt.d1s@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Bjarne Wichmann Petersen 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