From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 16:53:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29532 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:53:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell2.la.best.com (shell2.la.best.com [209.24.216.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29526 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nugundam@shell2.la.best.com) Received: (from nugundam@localhost) by shell2.la.best.com (8.9.1/8.9.0/best.sh) id QAA00256; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:52:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19990111165214.C27416@la.best.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:52:14 -0800 From: "Joseph T. Lee" To: Robert Nordier , Tugrul Cc: axl@iafrica.com, bright@hotjobs.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD beyond the 1024th cylinder References: <199901112356.BAA00761@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199901112356.BAA00761@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 01:56:15AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 01:56:15AM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Booting FreeBSD beyond cylinder 1023 is not currently supported. > > Support, by way of the IBM/Microsoft int 0x13 extensions, was > present in the new bootblocks a few months ago but was removed: > too many BIOSes don't implement this stuff properly. Couldn't this be added somehow as an option, or get autodetected? I've noticed my adaptec board can detect 0x13 extension support. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message