Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:26:30 +0900 From: Greg Lehey <grog@papillon.lemis.com> To: bear@pacificnet.net Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Message-ID: <19980822112630.64791@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980819220641.006b860c@pacificnet.net>; from bear@pacificnet.net on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:06:41PM -0700 References: <Pine.SO4.4.00.9808182300060.16525-100000@arcadia.hal.com> <19980819120827.D13676@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.SO4.4.00.9808182300060.16525-100000@arcadia.hal.com> <19980819180946.A13676@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.1.32.19980819220641.006b860c@pacificnet.net>
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On Wednesday, 19 August 1998 at 22:06:41 -0700, bear@pacificnet.net wrote: > At 06:09 PM 8/19/98 +0930, you wrote: >> That depends on your BIOS. You still need to be able to read the boot >> partition, and the BIOS decides that. More modern BIOSes don't have >> the 504 MB limit any more (they've introduced the 1 GB limit, the 2 GB >> limit and the 4 GB limit :-) One of these days I'll try to write this >> up. > > Woah, so what you're saying is that if we have a newer BIOS then we won't > have to deal with that 504 meg BS? Correct. > Now how can we find out if we have a BIOS that supports more than > 504 megabytes? I wonder if my BIOS supports it. All I know is that > Linux never complained about having 1 gig dedicated for Win95 and > 600 megs dedicated for Linux. That's on a 1.6 gig hardrive and > partitioned into two ( 1 gig and 600 megs). Would this be any > indication about my BIOS? That's a pretty good indication that your BIOS supports booting beyond the 504 MB limit. There are other limits, though (1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB; for some reason, they missed the opportunity with 16 GB). The only way I know to find out if you're affected by one of these is to try it. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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