From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 12:18:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23525 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:18:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23467 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA86269; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:22:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:22:10 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Tugrul cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Tugrul wrote: > Does anyone have a solid HOWTO or FAQ on how to accomplish this > feat of magic? :-) I need both Windows and FreeBSD on my machine, but my > IBM Deskstar 10 has 19650 cylinders, horribly limiting my booting options. > The Award's bios' LBA tricks don't seem to have any affect. > For Linux I just cp a kernel to /dev/fd0 and double check its > rdev or use loadlin. Stuff in src/sys/i386/boot looks like it might help, > but not with ELF kernels. Correct me if I am mistaken. > /boot/loader + fbsdboot.exe just hangs... perhaps something extra > I need to tell /boot/loader about its surroundings? have you tried OS-BSbeta? have you tried the newer boot blocks? i think you can do what you were able to do in linux with the freebsd newer blocks. -Alfred > > Tugrul Galatali > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message