Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:45:03 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c Message-ID: <200008082045.VAA01401@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@village.org> of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:28:46 MDT." <200008081928.NAA42569@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <200008081845.TAA00649@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
> : Wow, that's a big one ! It doesn't work here though :-( Perhaps the
> : bios only understands 8Gb....
>
> On the Libretto you have to do the following:
> Have normal partions from 0 to 8G-129M, either a dummy place
> holder partition, or no partitiona at all, from 8G-129M to 8G.
> Have normal partitions from 8G-end of disk.
>
> Maybe something similar is needed for the Sony? Maybe Sony has a new
> BIOS that fixes this?
I hope this isn't the case :-/ I've got
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 18267 6756 10048 40% /
and I like it that way....
> Warner
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