Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:17:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199601302117.WAA15090@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601300917.KAA09302@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 30, 96 10:13:17 am
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As Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> In this
> 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.
Yup, this sounds reasonable. At least from a Unix point of view --
the extended DOS partition will only be of some use for DOS if there's
a driver bypassing the BIOS limitations.
One addition: except for booting, FreeBSD does also support more than
one slice, so it's possible to put a single slice below the ficticous
cylinder 1024, containing just only the root file system, and keep the
remainder in another slice that might be located anywhere on the disk.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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