From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Mar 27 15:07:22 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C016ADFEC4 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x244.google.com (mail-wm0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C63B41EFF for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:07:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x244.google.com with SMTP id l68so15282138wml.3 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:07:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sKqU6lC2unU/e2svCZ9BLFlJj8Wax4afq3NHeUFyzGU=; b=ad2LHLogkSP1LM7T4UcI1XRpE80k+fsp32oEWr7+ioN01A/mFTRFPAJ1TAYDdwgRVA CjFHne2TUM1GUGDuHpO39ZXRxbilcRoc2LMW9Q6E1Qsqb4E/J3SIGvjp6hyGPIYLsGjr Ui90ZyJdI4Nw0DYIvuBAQ9nzF8iPEXZ2zaAoHxZl9tjtMTlqGr1sXTxAP46XvmL84pVk 7t0t9SANyqa0WaLthN7kvG9DF1f0D1TSNkVgXmvV2WJyuyFXNtsw2lD+7eGHCWpPrl6W voGH8FjzRDL3NzVg1ly0DSX77jsdLWn2USokt1vhvd+78JqgP0HVT7Xvhak+5GKe7Ztv GZdQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sKqU6lC2unU/e2svCZ9BLFlJj8Wax4afq3NHeUFyzGU=; b=mHjQls6RS8MLpKGuKzAwyt6TFfgUTJA0WuvZhchM6UNuK8DNYIw0b4i2zTPGba4B2f gLiajdR+SacIoUBc8UHADG3yuZG9qR/oS+wMwisj/ZStmUgp36B8cTYdyvsu9+xlFUMM mR0OXyiSXxRMT4vPSdct+y0FOnK3CNI4K5UjdGu32fZD0clqCnFbLMzPBClGf78fXld2 NPqq31QBmb2m2KnPn967PGd0kmT4EFCDTsgZBHfbPyH2Ek+IIZplMQGpJbS+nwG+LUhb 6HpG9GzArn/lwI2nwV7wSgas7TMRHUW3DJYKvGzzMf3C4xQHRHyeWtM5CmdcQ/j1hKcO j4jA== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIe8hyhJjqdHJ1K3rMjFCYqzvV2K4nNVE64SqYdEn+eLYJRk5RLflihmsusmcaFEA== X-Received: by 10.194.143.82 with SMTP id sc18mr23782573wjb.14.1459091239342; Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([2.222.25.53]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 188sm6179441wmk.6.2016.03.27.08.07.18 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:07:15 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootable freebsd slice's limit Message-ID: <20160327160715.01140c55@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:07:22 -0000 On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:31:26 +0800 Teng Zhang wrote: > In man fdisk(8), it refers to > "Note that bootable FreeBSD slices (the ``*/*'' file system) must lie > completely within the first 1024 cylinders; if this is not true, > booting may fail." > my confusion is whether this limit is aimed at just i386 > platform or all platforms that freebsd supports. Could you please > tell me the actual condition ? It's nothing to do with the OS, it was a BIOS limitation from a long time ago - well over 10 years.