Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:08:54 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re IDE/eIDE issues Message-ID: <199511170108.RAA02644@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199511161736.RAA01702@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> from "Neil Brendan Clark" at Nov 16, 95 05:36:39 pm
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As you've got the two FreeBSD parts next to each other, why did you make 2? you only need the a partition to be < 500MB > > In message <199511161421.PAA22771@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>you write: > > > >Looking back I find that I did only do mostly SCSI installations > >in the past and my (successful) IDE installations date back into > >times where common IDE drives used to have less than 1/2 GB. > > In my experience the root partition must not only be reachable by the BIOS, > but be contained entirely within the reachable limits of the BIOS, i.e. > <1024 cylinders or whatever. On my 1GB drive I have a small root which is > used to mount the rest after the BIOS has been blown out; here's the fdisk > info for completeness. > > Neil > > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=2099 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=2099 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 0 is: > sysid 77,(unknown) > start 263088, size 676368 (330 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 931/ sector 63/ head 15 > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 939456, size 42336 (20 Meg), flag 80 > beg: cyl 932/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 973/ sector 63/ head 15 > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 981792, size 1134000 (553 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 974/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) > start 63, size 263025 (128 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 15 >
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