From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 9:56:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD48437B40F; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8EH41501267; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200109141704.f8EH41501267@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Peter Pentchev Cc: rnordier@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:46:30 +0300." <20010914194630.A781@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:04:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works > if boot0 knows about it. Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the fbsd > slice? Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 should work just fine if they > are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find out > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder? This should work, yes. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message