Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:36:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: another 2.0.5 installation report Message-ID: <199508260636.IAA09535@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9508260015.AA13420@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 25, 95 06:15:35 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > o the decision whether a file system is acceptable as a root fs should > > be made based on the fdisk slot #, and not on the physical location > > on the disk > > That's impossible. > > You must always consider a file system unacceptable as a root fs if it > spans or exceeds BIOS cylinder 1023. No point here, the disk fakes to have 1024 cylinders. The above is really a bug. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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