From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 06:40:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA26022 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 06:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26003 Tue, 30 Jan 1996 06:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA15227; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:22:52 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601301452.BAA15227@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:22:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601300917.KAA09302@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 30, 96 10:13:17 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey stands accused of saying: > I'd like to confirm this. It's my understanding that the only reason > to require partitions to be below the magic 1024 cylinder limit is if > they are bootable, so that the BIOS can address them. In this Correct. > particular situation, you could do this by putting the primary DOS > partition, one of the UNIX slices ("partitions" in DOS terminology) > completely within the first 1024 cylinders, and the other UNIX slice > sufficiently in the first 1024 cylinders that the root partition is > below the limit. The rest of the disk would include the rest of the > second UNIX slice and the DOS extended partition. I'm not sure I see the picture you're painting here. From FreeBSD's point of view, the following must be met : 1) The entire root filesystem must be below the 1024 cylinder mark. 2) If bad144 bad-sector marking has been used (uncommon), the entire BSD slice must be below the 1024 cylinder mark. > Greg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[