Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:52:09 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Mike Barton <mike@dad.state.vt.us> Cc: mwm@mired.org, Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disklabel 101? Message-ID: <20010409095209.B2619@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <003101c0c0ed$a4c0ba10$1201a8c0@sanmik.com>; from mike@dad.state.vt.us on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:07:25AM -0400 References: <E14mYoZ-0006LJ-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> <003101c0c0ed$a4c0ba10$1201a8c0@sanmik.com>
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:07:25AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote: > I've got a setup like that working now. I think the problem is that that you > can't have the root partition past the 1024 logical cylinder due to BIOS > issues - I surely would've liked to have been in on wrting that piece of > code! Mind you, this machine hasn't swapped yet, which raises an OT > question: what's the easiest way to get the machine to swap *hard*? Keep in > mind that I'm still a bit leery of 'make world' ;) No, the root partition can be anywhere. The trouble with the 1024th cylinder is that the boot sector might not be able to find the kernel. This is a non-issue, though, becaues the FreeBSD boot0 supports BIOS 0x13 extensions (see the manpage for boot0cfg, on the "packet" option), which will let the boot0 code find a kernel anywhere. Actually, when I first built my system, I didn't install boot0 because I was using LILO. When I tried to replace it, I couldn't get boot0 to boot, because I didn't specify the packet option. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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