From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 8 12:29:29 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6B837BA31; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA93745; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:29:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA42569; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:28:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008081928.NAA42569@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Somers Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c Cc: Josef Karthauser , Robert Watson , Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:45:25 BST." <200008081845.TAA00649@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200008081845.TAA00649@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:28:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200008081845.TAA00649@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : Wow, that's a big one ! It doesn't work here though :-( Perhaps the : bios only understands 8Gb.... On the Libretto you have to do the following: Have normal partions from 0 to 8G-129M, either a dummy place holder partition, or no partitiona at all, from 8G-129M to 8G. Have normal partitions from 8G-end of disk. Maybe something similar is needed for the Sony? Maybe Sony has a new BIOS that fixes this? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message