Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:54:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Cc: jud@operamail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. Message-ID: <20011230225415.GC55048@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20011230222939.XXUH22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there> References: <8FD1Y87KFKJLKUTGVS61VPJESPDCID.3c2f7558@sparky> <20011230222939.XXUH22989.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>
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In the last episode (Dec 30), Bjarne Wichmann Petersen said: > On Sunday 30 December 2001 21:13, Jud wrote: > > The last I saw, the 1024th cylinder limitation was still in effect > > if using FBSD's bootloader, though someone else may know different. > > GRUB, which I've only used a short time but am quite happy with, > > says it will boot an OS beyond the 1024th cylinder if your disks do > > LBA. LBA isn't exactly a new thing, so I assume this will work for > > most people. > > Hmm... I thought it wass the OS itself that imposed that limitation > and not the bootloader... gotta test this... ;) Nope. Actually, boot0 can use packet mode if you BIOS supports it. "boot0cfg -o packet" enables it. I don't know how you set this flag during installation, though. I know this flag works, because my FreBSD partition is on cylinders 3500-4500 of a 4500-cylinder drive. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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