From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 8 3:25: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837D537B66D for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by charlie.cns.iit.edu (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA63524; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 05:17:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 05:17:31 -0500 From: "Benjamin M. Manes" To: Mikael Larsson Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: Mulitple os (windows 2000, Linux and freebsd). In-Reply-To: <000e01c0310e$a3896e90$6aed40d5@hemmabjsuf2ufs> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > questions is that I wrote that freebsd must be installe "above" 8G on > the harddisk, is this true? > > Mike Yep, it is or was. The OS must be installed/booted before the 1024 cylinder. If it isn't, then the system will simply hault and not boot. I believe someone said earlier on here that this was going to be fixed, but I really don't remember. You simply need to install it before the cylinder, so the slice can span over if you wish. Windows/dos have this limitation too. Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message