From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 25 20:26:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA23752 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 20:26:39 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA23704 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 20:26:21 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA09677; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:53:17 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510260323.MAA09677@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: more boot disk.... To: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br (Sergio Lenzi) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:53:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Sergio Lenzi" at Oct 25, 95 07:49:26 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1029 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sergio Lenzi stands accused of saying: > Ok but... If I make a FreeBSD slice that begins on cyl 1 for example, > and in that slice I make some filesystems this way: > > rootfs 60Mb starting on cyl 1 > swap 100MB > usr 500MB > home 700MB > > I supose that the rootf ,where the kernel resides, is in the > beggining of the disk, so accessible by the bios right???? > > So if I partition the disk this way the system will work. It's my experience that this will be fine. You're obviously aware of the cylinder 1 requirement, so everything else should be fine. Be careful that the BIOS and FreeBSD sectors per cylinder counts match. > Lenzi. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[