From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 17:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94EED37BCFB for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:33:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kleung@padc22.pa.dec.com) Received: from pobox1.pa.dec.com (pobox1.pa.dec.com [16.1.240.19]) by mail1.digital.com (8.9.2/8.9.3/WV2.0h) with SMTP id RAA12855 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from padc22.pa.dec.com by pobox1.pa.dec.com (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/07Nov97-1157AM) id AA23707; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:33:26 -0800 Received: from localhost by padc22.pa.dec.com (8.8.8/1.1.10.5/07Nov97-1157AM) id RAA28534; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:33:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:33:26 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Leung To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Q: is there any problems in having the FreeBSD root partition above the 1024 cylinder mark? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I will be getting a 20GB IDE drive as the second hard drive for my computer. I want to have a triple boot system or more. First hard drive was dedicated to Win98. For this second drive, I plan to have a FAT32, FreeBSD, and BeOS slices. What is the constraints on how I place FreeBSD? Does the current boot manager allow FreeBSD slices to sit above the 1024 cylinder mark. Can a FreeBSD slice start below the 1024 cylinder mark and the root partition to be under the mark, but the slice to end above the 1024 cylinder mark? I might have my slice and partition definition switched. I am using slice to represent the thing that holds multiple partitions (/, /tmp, /var, /usr). -Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message