Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:09:07 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Nicolas Blais <nicblais@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1024 Cylinder prob Message-ID: <38ED3533.12A82B74@3-cities.com> References: <20000406232641.75848.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Hi! I'm using Windows 98 on my 20Gb HD and is a partition A which is 10GB. > The other 10GB is for FreeBSD. Unfortunatly, FreeBSD (5.0-CURRENT) can't > boot at power on when installed because of the damn BIOS's crappy 1024 > cylinder limit. > Is there a way around it without having to boot FreeBSD from dos? I have a FreeBSD 4.0 system on a Maxtor 20GB drive. The problem is that the / partition has to be before cylinder 1024. That works out to be ~8.4GB. You can divide the disk up how ever you want as long as / comes before 1024. I have a 2GB Fat 16, 13GB ffs, and a 5GB extended partition with the rest of my windows stuff in it. I don't like systems on my "c" drive. I also use the W2K ntldr and it doesn't matter with it. Kent > > BTW, I using a Microstar K7Pro in case you need this info. > > Thanks, > Nicolas. > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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