Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:21:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Steven L.Richardson" <stretch@dsp.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from beyond 1024 cyl? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970408141945.1399E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <334A7776.6FA1@dsp.net>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steven L.Richardson wrote: > I tried finessing around the 1024 cylinder limit on active paritions by > using a copy of the root partition's boot record (using dd and the raw > device copying 512 bytes) and employing a boot manager (NT's in this > case). But it barfs and I guess I've learned the hard way that only > 10 bits are allocated at some very low level, such as in the boot record > itself, for addressing cylinder location. Is there any way around this? > I phoned my bios (Award) manufacturer and all they could suggest was > LBA. Is a bios change the only way out of this predicament? Unfortunately, no. It's in the BIOS. Based on your disk usage, to get FreeBSD running w/o a boot floppy (?) you'll have to reslice. (have you tried the boot floppy btw?) You could try adding a slice to your boot disk and putting just the root partition there. > I think the answer is that there is simply no way around this and that I > should have done installation with LBA or fragmented my NT partition > and installed freebsd root below cyl 1024 (as your documentation clearly > states!) Is that in fact the case? AFAIK, you are in a jam. Second disks are really nice :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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