From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 6 05:52:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA22210 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 05:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA22191 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 05:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA09142; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:51:57 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA14251; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:51:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id OAA13712; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:42:38 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601061342.OAA13712@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: HELP!!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (fwd) To: dk+@ua.net Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:42:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601061115.NAA12788@dog> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Jan 6, 96 01:15:22 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > > > This is the BIOS-visible part. BSD can go beyond this, even for disks > > where the first part must be accessible to the BIOS (like boot disks). > > ooh, but when I have >=1024 c disk with non-BSD occupying the first part > of it, I still _cannot_ boot BSD without installing some lame s/w like > diskmanager (which I hate to use and don't have anyway - and I have LBA > drive and LBA IDE controller). Do the layout like this: -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)