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From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>
To: "Darryl Okahata" <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
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Subject: Re: Installing on large disks 
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From: "Darryl Okahata" <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
> "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> wrote:
>
> > After several reinstalls I've come to the conclusion that installing
> > i386 and amd64 in 50G partitions does not work.
>
>      See the "-o packet" option of boot0cfg:
>
>      -o options
>              A comma-separated string of any of the following options may be
>              specified (with ``no'' prepended as necessary):
>
>              packet  Use the disk packet (BIOS Int 0x13 extensions) interface,
>                      as as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing
>                      disk I/O.  This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but
>                      requires specific BIOS support.  The default is
>                      `nopacket'.
>

Although I see your point, I need/want a selector which understands the fact
that
the slice on which the bootcode is is at the far, far end of the disk.
ASnd from what I gather, this will just replace the selector code which normally
lives in the MBR???

--WjW