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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 96 21:31:14 PST
From:      BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com
To:        Jean-Marc BOTTURA <bottura@speedy.grolier.fr>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   geometry problem with 4GB micropolis
Message-ID:  <9609118450.AA845091929@ccgate.infoworld.com>

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In my experience, any geometry that gets the system to boot is OK. After
the kernel loads, the sd driver takes over and sees the SCSI drive as a
linear array of blocks -- no geometry information needed.

Your best bet is to install the FreeBSD Boot Manager, which virtually any
BIOS will load. It will take over the boot process from the BIOS, and
it does not have the BIOS's limitations.

I just used this technique to install a 2.5 GB IDE drive on an older 486
machine. The machine's BIOS couldn't even fathom a drive that large, and
the manufacturer said it would never work....  But it did.

--Brett




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