From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 17 03:48:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA27583 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 03:48:47 -0800 Received: from vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk [130.159.232.158]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA27569 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 03:48:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA03976; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:48:20 GMT Message-Id: <199511171148.LAA03976@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> X-Authentication-Warning: vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Re IDE/eIDE issues cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 02:11:48 PST." <199511171011.CAA03705@ref.tfs.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:48:19 +0000 From: Neil Brendan Clark Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >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.. Either my computer is a fussy bugger or I took too much LDS in the seventies ;-)I tried it; it seems a fairly obvious thing to do, after all, and it did not work. I recall a boot message saying something like "partition is out of reach of BIOS", whereas if it is completely out of reach of the BIOS you get a "missing operating system message", or something like that. Either way, it most definately utterly sure-as-the-sun-rises-in-the-morning did not work. Perhaps having two other OS's on the disk confused the issue; perhaps, as I say, my machine is fussy (it is certainly a bit strange), but it didn't work. Maybe it's my BIOS, maybe it's because I live in Glasgow town, maybe it's because of latent black magic, but that's what happened. My machine is a Viglen Genie Professional Pentium 75 with 1Gig IDE, 2099 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors, BTW. Neil