From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 06:00:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13479 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 06:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA13472 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 06:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA05334; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:59:25 -0500 From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199609051259.HAA05334@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE installation question To: shadows@kuwait.net Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 07:59:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "The ShadowS Know" at Sep 5, 96 08:19:21 am X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, The ShadowS Know said: > > 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 >From what I've read, the requirement is that the / partition must be in the first 504meg. This is because the boot block must be bios accessible and that isn't guarenteed to be in the first part of the partition. If your machine boots, that it should be fine, and upgrade could break that (or reinstalling the boot block I suppose). Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030