Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:19:21 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know <shadows@whitefang.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE installation question Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960905081634.16588C-100000@broken.whitefang.com> In-Reply-To: <322DDE3A.216C@ime.net>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > Paul T. Root wrote: > > For EIDE drives, the root partition *MUST* be completely contained within > > the first 504Meg of the drive, due to the PC architectures BIOS limitations. > > > > That applies to all IDE bootable devices, Not just EIDE. Well I installed 2.1.5 on an EIDE and even though it does start in the first 504 megs its not *completely* contained in it. Is this causing some problem I'm not aware of? I've only experienced it bieng slow, and I figured its like that since there is no EIDE driver (or so the kernel LINT config file said). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShadowS WhiteFang Unix Software Development Thamer Al-Herbish And Consultancy. shadows@whitefang.com Specialising in Custom Network Applications for Unix Systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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