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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&nbsp;MB (or in the first
-	    4096&nbsp;MB if extended translation is turned on &mdash; see
-	    previous question).  For IDE, the corresponding figure is
-	    504&nbsp;MB.</para>
-	</answer>
-      </qandaentry>
-
-      <qandaentry>
 	<question id="disk-manager">
 	  <para>Is &os; compatible with any disk managers?</para>
 	</question>