From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 13:24:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00836 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:24:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00800 Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA19812; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:23:18 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04142; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:23:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id WAA15090; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:17:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601302117.WAA15090@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:17:11 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601300917.KAA09302@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 30, 96 10:13:17 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)