Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:08:26 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, rnordier@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? Message-ID: <3BA2479A.4582C4BC@urx.com> References: <200109141704.f8EH41501267@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. I tried this with a boot1 from FreeBSD 4.4-rc and get a BTX error. I had to go back to the boot1 from 4.3 before I could boot. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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