Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:59:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jeff Z. Chi" <zchi@hal.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808191159071.27190-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980819120827.D13676@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 18 August 1998 at 15:19:34 -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jeff Z. Chi wrote: > > > >> I know FreeBSD 2.2 cannot handle EIDE drives greater than 500 MB. > >> As instructed in the book, we have to partition it into 2 boot > >> partitions, one for win and one for FreeBSD. > > > > That is a limitation of your system BIOS, not FreBSD. > > > >> I am wonder if the upcoming FreeBSD 3.0 still has that problem. > > > > On your system, yes. > > I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, Doug. There *have* > been problems with IDE disks with more than 8 GB under 2.X, and > they've only just been resolved (after 2.2.7-RELEASE). Jeff, if you > have a disk like that, you should upgrade to 2.2-STABLE. Yeah, but it doesn't relate to booting. The 1024 cylinder limit is strictly a BIOS problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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