Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:37:23 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rnordier@FreeBSD.org, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? Message-ID: <XFMail.20010915123723.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010914194630.A781@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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On 14-Sep-2001 Peter Pentchev wrote: > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works > if boot0 knows about it. Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the fbsd > slice? Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 should work just fine if they > are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find out > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder? FYI the way you actually DO this is run boot0cfg :) eg.. boot0cfg -v -o packet /dev/mydiskdevice --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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