Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:44:57 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <munk@munkboxen.mine.nu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cylinder 1024 Limit vs LBA Disk Drive mapping Message-ID: <20020523154456.B11176@munkboxen.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <0D6CE218BF54D211B37F00E0292657F40CEAD617@susdayte03.daytonoh.ncr.com>; from MH125685@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com on Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:37:41AM -0400 References: <0D6CE218BF54D211B37F00E0292657F40CEAD617@susdayte03.daytonoh.ncr.com>
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:37:41AM -0400, Hurley, Michael wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a modern system with both IDE drives mapped using LBA, so the BIOS > has no problem short of about 120GB. > I will be using either GRUB or V-Communications' "System Commander" as a > Boot loader. > Does the < Cylinder 1024 Boot Partition limitation apply? Since the second > drive is used now for expansion space & swap partitions, I can, if necessary > rearrange things there and install FreeBSD in the first partition there. > I'd prefer to install FreeBSD above 12GB on the first drive. In my experience helping out in a freebsd based IRC channel, people have untold problems installing freebsd to anything other than the first partition on the first drive on the first ide controller! I did have quite a few problems when I first tentatively installed freebsd as a 'dual boot' OS with linux on the first partition... as such I removed linux totally and moved over to freebsd - never looked back:) My usual advise is to dedicate a whole machine to freebsd if possible - once you have it up and running you don't want to turn it off anyway :) In general though, you will have problems installing to a partition that is past the 1024 cylinder mark though (although you could try it just to see how much pain it is:). Good luck, -- Jez Hancock - munk@munkboxen.mine.nu http://munkboxen.mine.nu - FreeBSD network http://www.freebsd.org - Probably the best OS in the world... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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