From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 11: 8:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (2811.dynacom.net [206.107.213.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F7837B408; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:08:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.03) id A79A25021A; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:08:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3BA2479A.4582C4BC@urx.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:08:26 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Peter Pentchev , rnordier@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? References: <200109141704.f8EH41501267@mass.dis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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