From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 13:43:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4C61515D for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a010.otenet.gr [195.167.115.10]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA24652 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:43:24 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 4907 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 1999 11:45:10 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot mount root Panic References: <000301bf18a1$a7900ca0$b6a50ccb@marcdods> <3809E159.23801687@jps.net> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 18 Oct 1999 14:45:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: Herbert M Pollard's message of "Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:46:49 -0400" Message-ID: <86aepgsxix.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Herbert M Pollard writes: > During install at the partition editor I got a message stating that I was > outside 1024 limit. Did you get any similar message? I didn't think scsi had > that limitation. I don't think that SCSI has this limitation, no. About the 1024 limit now, it seems that the FreeBSD loading process still honors this deprecate 'feature' of some older BIOSes that would not load anything above 1024 cylinders. With the 'modern' BIOes this might not be the truth, but FreeBSD machines with i386 or i486 processors still exist out there. Perhaps it is time that the booting process changes a bit. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message