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Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:59:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Roddie Hasan <roddie@krweb.net>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.10.10004292157590.19887-100000@vex.net>
In-Reply-To: <390BA0B8.2E02A4CB@newsguy.com>

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Hi Daniel, 

Thanks for the quick reply..

> Booting above 8 Gb is not supported, due to BIOS problems. If you don't
> believe that, trying booting Windows above 8 Gb... :-)

Understood - But why would it have worked with 3.4 and the *exact* same
configuration?  (When I upgraded, I deleted the partition during install,
and recreated it the same way).

> problem recently. There is _unsupported_ options to make this work, but
> we can't activate them by default because not all hardware/firmware is
> compatible with it.

I'd be happy to test them further.. :)

Roddie



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