From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 08:43:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25449 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25444 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-17.ime.net [206.231.148.146]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA02640; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:42:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <32076830.378F@ime.net> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 11:43:44 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Raynard CC: Annelise Anderson , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic mounting root References: <199608051810.SAA02267@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James Raynard wrote: > > > > Not to start a war! I know some dissagree! > > > > > > But bootable partitions *must* be under cylinder 1024. (504M) > > > This is a limitation of the PC System BIOS boot code! > > > > I think this refers only to IDE/EIDE drives. I have a 2.1G Conner > > fast scsi 2 installed as a second hard drive on an Adaptec 1542CF, > > and FreeBSD is running in the *last* 660 mb. on that drive (booting > > from the OS/2 boot manager). > > The 504MB limit is what 1024 cylinders works out at for IDE drives. > > For SCSI drives, it works out at either 1024MB or 4096MB, depending > on whether you have "extended translation" (aka "support for DOS > drives >1GB") disabled or enabled. James, Thank you! I needed that.. :) (Sheepishly admitting my lack of SCSI knowledge) -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848