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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).

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