Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:25:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40111 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201211201825.qAKIP6BU072030@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Tue Nov 20 18:25:06 2012 New Revision: 40111 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40111 Log: The question relating to restrictions on how to divide a disk is irrelevant. Noted by: scottl Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Nov 20 18:25:04 2012 (r40110) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Nov 20 18:25:06 2012 (r40111) @@ -1476,26 +1476,6 @@ </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="disk-divide-restrictions"> - <para>Are there any restrictions on how I divide the disk - up?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>Yes. You must make sure that your root partition is - below 1024 cylinders so the BIOS can boot the kernel from it. - (Note that this is a limitation in the PC's BIOS, not - &os;).</para> - - <para>For a SCSI drive, this will normally imply that the root - partition will be in the first 1024 MB (or in the first - 4096 MB if extended translation is turned on — see - previous question). For IDE, the corresponding figure is - 504 MB.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="disk-manager"> <para>Is &os; compatible with any disk managers?</para> </question>
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