From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 7 8:41:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6496715178 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 08:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from paranor.embt.net (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA07854 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:45:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991007114127.009aeca0@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:41:27 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: disk partitions In-Reply-To: <14331.51069.769962.724682@freed.dyn.ez-ip.net> References: <199910052325.QAA01404@chad.anasazi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:04 PM 10/6/99 -0400, you wrote: > >[good point, snipped] > >Isn't there something about FAT** partitions having to be in the first >sectors of the disk? > >I seem to remember that putting Win** anywhere else than at the first >cylinder was bad, I don't remember why. > >Anyways... > >Ants. > If ever there was such a requirement, it is no longer applicable. Some (all?) off the various incantations of Windows need to boot < 1024 cyl boundary (usually 8 GB), but they are happy in any slice. IIRC, they do have problems booting to anything other than primary master for IDE. FWIW, BSL (http://bsl.comart.com.pl) is a very capable boot manager. It is cardware/shareware depending in how much functionality you want. Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message