From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 20: 7:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC7537B408; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26726; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:37:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010914194630.A781@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:37:23 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rnordier@FreeBSD.org, Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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