Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:44:18 +0300 (????) From: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>, stable@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probs with latest stable snap Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951029154208.29914A-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <4836.814910348@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > First, when installing, I tried to create two freebsd partitions on the > > same drive. When it tried to format the partitions, I got > > "/dev/rsd0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable" > > DO NOT DO THAT. I guess I'll have to make it an error to do so since > there are a lot of ways you can hose yourself if you do this (for one > thing, it will only boot from the first partition it finds). > You have to use two freebsd partitions in order to get bad144 working on disks with more then 1024 cylinders. Most edsi's need this. -Dima > Jordan >
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