From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 13:22:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail01.uwec.edu (mail01.uwec.edu [137.28.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B6C14E6F for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from godfreja@uwec.edu) Received: from [137.28.252.212] by mail01.uwec.edu with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:22:08 -0500 Received: (from godfreja@localhost) by vroom.uwec.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA01355 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:19:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from godfreja@uwec.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:19:54 -0500 From: Jason Godfrey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!! Who can give me help?? Message-ID: <19990429151954.A1339@uwec.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:27:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:27:25PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Something you should take into consideration is that you won't be able to > boot if you are using the last 3 GB for FreeBSD. The root partition must > be located before the 1024th cyl in order to boot it. > > Kenneth Culver Is this still an issue with 3.1, or did the 3 stage loader fix the problem? I honestly don't know. I helped install 3.1 on a friend's computer that was already partitioned such that FreeBSD was to go > 1024. It worked fine, but I didn't have a chance to see if the BIOS was playing tricks to hide the fact. Thanks -- Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message