From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 8 13:45:27 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A6F37B540; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19670; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:45:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01401; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:45:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200008082045.VAA01401@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: Brian Somers , Josef Karthauser , Robert Watson , Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:28:46 MDT." <200008081928.NAA42569@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:45:03 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message