From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 22:21:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22536 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broken.whitefang.com (broken.whitefang.com [199.173.153.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22531 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shadows@localhost) by broken.whitefang.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA16800 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:19:22 +0300 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: broken.whitefang.com: shadows owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:19:21 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know Reply-To: shadows@kuwait.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE installation question In-Reply-To: <322DDE3A.216C@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > Paul T. Root wrote: > > For EIDE drives, the root partition *MUST* be completely contained within > > the first 504Meg of the drive, due to the PC architectures BIOS limitations. > > > > That applies to all IDE bootable devices, Not just EIDE. Well I installed 2.1.5 on an EIDE and even though it does start in the first 504 megs its not *completely* contained in it. Is this causing some problem I'm not aware of? I've only experienced it bieng slow, and I figured its like that since there is no EIDE driver (or so the kernel LINT config file said). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShadowS WhiteFang Unix Software Development Thamer Al-Herbish And Consultancy. shadows@whitefang.com Specialising in Custom Network Applications for Unix Systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------