Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 00:59:46 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: jon@minotaur.com (Jon E. Mitchiner) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I use IDE HD. more than 8G Message-ID: <199805060759.AAA03710@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <000001bd78be$08bcc430$641146d1@roaming.minotaur.com> from "Jon E. Mitchiner" at "May 6, 98 03:10:22 am"
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In reply to Jon E. Mitchiner who wrote:
> > But , the boot disk can only allocate 8G disk space , I've
> > tried to edit
> > geometry , bot I can't
> > label disk space over 8G.
>
> Does your BIOS support drives larger than 8.4GB? You might have to upgrade
> your bios in order for it to support > 8.4GB so you might want to check with
> your motherboard manufacturer for a update.
It doesn't matter for FreeBSD to work, its only a problem if you
have multiple OS's installed and one of those would go behind the
8.4G point, then the fdisk label cannot point at it :)
However FreeBSD can be install as the last OS on the disk, that
will work as long as the bootblock & root fs is below the 8.4G
mark...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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