Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:50:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: jeff@stat.uconn.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604091750.KAA05353@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604090924.LAA12762@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 9, 96 12:38:53 pm
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> > I just received the text 'Installing and Running FreeBSD' by Greg > > Lehey and in it he suggests to keep the root partition in the first > > 1024 cylinders of my EIDE 1.6GB hard disk. However, I have managed > > to install and support a FreeBSD 2.1.0 system on my hard disk living > > entirely well beyond the 1024th cylinder for some time. > > Congratulations. Can you tell us more about your configuration? I > suspect that it depends on the BIOS: as I said in my book, the > limitations stem from the maximum values that most BIOSes understand > for heads, tracks and sectors. If you have a BIOS which is less > brain-damaged, it will work. The second stage boot uses BIOS to load the kernel. Even if you had an LBA-aware MBR to load the second stage boot, the second stage boot could not load the kernel, since it will be using simple BIOS-based INT 13 I/O which can't see beyond cylinder 1024. He must be using a second stage boot other than that provided by BSD... maybe LILO? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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