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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!fi.gs.com!qsss08!avraad From: avraad@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com (David Avraamides) Subject: Cylinders occupied by / (was Re: Install problem with FreeBSD-2.0R on P5/PCI/WD IDE) In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of Tue, 29 Nov 1994 06:26:16 GMT Message-ID: <AVRAAD.94Dec1084617@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com> Sender: news@qsss08.gs.com Nntp-Posting-Host: qssw04 Organization: Goldman, Sachs & Co. References: <KELLY.94Nov28094452@woody.fsl.noaa.gov> <D00n7s.A6o@tfs.com> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:46:17 GMT Lines: 20 >>>>> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: # # Almost: The / filesystem must >END< before or at cylinder 1023, other # wise you might not be able to load /kernel from the bootblock How can you see what cylinders a partition actually uses? I know how much DOS and FreeBSD use, but I'm not sure about the cylinder ranges for the individual FreeBSD partitions (I just did some quick math to keep / under 1023, but I'd like some confirmation! :-) -- David Avraamides Goldman, Sachs & Co. (212) 357-1346 avraad@qsss08.gs.com