Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 02:11:48 -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: <199511171011.CAA03705@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199511170941.JAA03749@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> from "Neil Brendan Clark" at Nov 17, 95 09:41:29 am
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> > The way I allocated space was like this; > DOS 128M > QNX 330M > FBSD1 20M > FBSD2 553M > > which allowed me to access all OS's freely without changing any BIOS parameters, > aside from removing the initial brain damaged IDE translation. If I had merged > FBSD1 and FBSD2 into the one partition, it would not be wholly within the reach > of the BIOS and would not boot. I know this, since I tried it ;-) > No, this is where you are wrong.. it would work as long as the 'a' subdivision of the FBSD slice was below Cyl 1024 the rest doesn't matter..
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