From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 8: 7: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (sentinel.office1.bg [217.75.135.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE98A37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 952 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Sep 2001 15:06:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:06:22 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: rnordier@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? Message-ID: <20010914180622.A512@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: rnordier@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, A quote from the end of the boot_i386.8 manual page.. IMPORTANT NOTE: Because of limitations imposed by the conventional disk interface provided by the BIOS, all boot-related files and structures (including the kernel) that need to be accessed during the boot phase must reside on the disk at or below cylinder 1023 (as the BIOS under- stands the geometry). When a ``Disk error 0x1'' is reported by the sec- ond-stage bootstrap, it generally means that this requirement has not been adhered to. Just today I had a friend ask me if this is still true; I checked CVS history and found out that this comment was added by rnordier more than two years ago. Is this still true? G'luck, Peter -- If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message