Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:25:49 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Bill Northlich <billn@onlive.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: booting question Message-ID: <19970217152549.05580@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=OnLive?_Technolo%l=SLAVE-970217020417Z-3172@slave.onlive.com>; from Bill Northlich on Feb 02, 1997 at 06:04:17PM References: <c=US%a=_%p=OnLive?_Technolo%l=SLAVE-970217020417Z-3172@slave.onlive.com>
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Bill Northlich: |The manual says that the FreeBSD root file system must be within the |1st 504 mb. of the disk, else booting wont work (p. 27). However, |could I put it out on the end of the disk and boot from floppy every |time? Thanks, Hi Bill. If that's all the manual says, its wrong. If you're running BIOS LBA on that disk then there is no such limitation. I boot way above the 1024th cylinder (around 504Mb without LBA) on both my disks. If your not running LBA, I can't help with the booting-from-floppy question. Hope somebody can answer that for you. Randall Hopper
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