From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 14:21:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA02732 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02708 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA01438; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:21:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Steven L.Richardson" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot from beyond 1024 cyl? In-Reply-To: <334A7776.6FA1@dsp.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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