From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 28 15:43:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from bearmtn-e0.cgd.ucar.edu (bearmtn-e0.cgd.ucar.edu [128.117.24.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83418155B6 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sitongia@cgd.ucar.edu) Received: from shambhala.cgd.ucar.edu (shambhala [128.117.24.6]) by bearmtn-e0.cgd.ucar.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16801 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:43:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shambhala (shambhala [128.117.24.6]) by shambhala.cgd.ucar.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA12849 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:43:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909282243.QAA12849@shambhala.cgd.ucar.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:43:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Leonard Sitongia Reply-To: Leonard Sitongia Subject: LBA in Toshiba Portege 3110 to boot multi-os? To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: eiX3t5WgAmSUXyAENR+TFw== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.3.2 SunOS 5.7 sun4u sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've searched all over for this... I wish Toshiba's support had a non-commercial way to ask them questions over the net (their method requires CompuServe membership)... This Portege 3110 is a pretty new system, yet it doesn't appear to have LBA (Logical Block Addressing) to support booting an OS who's boot partition starts at a cylinder numbered over 1023. On the other hand, the Win partition is first, is over 1GB in size, and the second partition, FreeBSD-release, is the next partition, and it boots OK. I want to run -release and -current in different partitions so that I can run them separately. There's nothing in the BIOS settings about this. I FIPS'd Win down to 1GB. I put a 2GB partition in for -release. That runs OK. When I went to install -current into a new partition starting about 3GB into the disk, I got complaints about something too large or not fitting. I figure, from the Handbook, that this is the 1024 cylinder problem. I tried setting up two root partitions at low cylinder numbers, but the install complains about not being able to mount /mnt/dev/X on /mnt/usr, or takes over the 2nd root as /usr, which is too small. In this case I had set up partitions as: small unused partition Win98 -release / (mount point /) -current / (mount point /new) -release swap -current swap -release /usr (mount point /usr) -current /usr (mount point /newusr) So the install tries to put everything in the -release /, or puts /usr into -current /, although the mount point of /usr is explicitly defined in the labeling. Any help here would be greatly appreciated! --Leonard --Leonard E. Sitongia CGD Systems Group (CSG) sitongia@ucar.edu voice: (303)497-1338 fax: (303)497-1324 Climate and Global Dynamics P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message