Date: 9 Oct 1999 09:13:56 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/14227: pre-indent markup fix for multi-os article Message-ID: <19991009091356.74030.qmail@mithrandr.moria.org>
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>Number: 14227 >Category: docs >Synopsis: pre-indent markup fix for multi-os article >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 9 02:50:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Neil Blakey-Milner >Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society >Environment: FreeBSD mithrandr.moria.org 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Sep 29 17:30:21 SAST 1999 root@mithrandr.moria.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/MITHRANDR i386 >Description: Un<para>-wrap some tables and examples. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: cvs diff: Diffing . Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/nbm/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 article.sgml --- article.sgml 1999/10/04 21:41:03 1.7 +++ article.sgml 1999/10/09 09:08:44 @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ install FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows 95 on them.</para> <para>Here's how I might do it using these hard disks: +</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -142,7 +143,6 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> -</para> <para>Both disks have 1416 cylinders.</para> @@ -518,13 +518,13 @@ restricts users of this interface (i.e. boot managers hooked into your disk's MBR as well as OS loaders hooked into the Boot Sectors) to the following limits: +</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>1024 cylinders, max</para></listitem> <listitem><para>256 heads , max</para></listitem> <listitem><para>64 sectors/track, max (actually 63, <literal>0</> isn't available)</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> -</para> <para>Now big hard disks have lots of cylinders but not a lot of heads, so invariably with big hard disks the number of cylinders is @@ -533,11 +533,11 @@ boot manager and the OS loader hooked into all bootable partitions' Boot Sectors) has to reside below cylinder 1024. In fact, if your hard disk is typical and has 16 heads, this equates to: +</para> <informalexample> <para>1024 cyl/disk × 16 heads/disk × 63 sect/(cyl-head) × 512 bytes/sector</para> </informalexample> -</para> <para>which is around the often-mentioned 528MB limit.</para> @@ -558,16 +558,16 @@ <para>To use my 1.6 Gig Western Digital as an example again, it's physical geometry is: +</para> <informalexample> <para>(3148 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512 bytes/sector)</para> </informalexample> -</para> <para>However, my BIOS LBA remaps this to: +</para> <informalexample> <para>( 787 cyl, 64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 512 bytes/sector)</para> </informalexample> -</para> <para>giving the same effective size disk, but with cylinder and head counts within the BIOS API's range (Incidentally, I have both Linux and @@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ <para>For reference, the following boot managers use the Master Boot Sector to store their code and data: +</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -636,10 +637,10 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> -</para> <para>These boot managers use a few additional sectors after the Master Boot Sector: +</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -651,7 +652,6 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> -</para> </sect3> @@ -665,10 +665,10 @@ <para>If you have a bootable DOS partition on your disk, you can boot off a DOS floppy, and run: +</para> <informalexample> <screen>A:\> <userinput>FDISK /MBR</></screen> </informalexample> -</para> <para>to put the original, simple DOS boot code back into the system. You can then boot DOS (and DOS only) off the hard drive. Alternatively, just >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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