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Date:        Wed, 31 May 2000 00:59:55 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
To:        Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
Cc:        HarDBooT <hardbootpr@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.0 install problem
Message-ID:  <20000531005955.A47727@student.csd.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <3934431C.1A60B570@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:39:24AM %2B0200
References:  <LPBBLEPDDNONIMKLLIKAOECFCAAA.hardbootpr@hotmail.com> <3934431C.1A60B570@i-clue.de>

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On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:39:24AM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> FreeBSD, as Winblows, wants to have its boot partition within the very
> first two Gig of any drive. It seems you experienced fdisk reporting the
> fact.
> 

Nope. FreeBSD just need to have its boot partition within the first 1024
cylinders. (AFAIK this is true for Windows too.)
Depending on how old the BIOS is this is either below the 504MB limit (for
old BIOS) or below 8GB (for newer BIOS).


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