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From: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can this install take place?  System Commander?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 02:33:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Les_Hartzman@ wrote:
: I'm trying to not have to rebuild my system to add FBSD.  I currently have a 1GB
: 
: Is there anything special with FBSD that will not boot if installed beyond 1023 
: cylinders?  Will System Commander allow me to do this or is it also restricted?

Special with FBSD?  No!  Special about the BIOS in your PC that allows you
to boot any Operating System?  Yes!

I don't know of any OS that will boot from a partition that lies >1024 cyc.
So you will have to repartition your disk.  Data partitions are ok to start
beyond 1024 if the OS (FBSD does) supports it.

Your other choice is to get a new controler card that does cyc mapping by
halfing the number of cyc and doubling the number of heads.  My Buslogics
IDE controler does this, and it works great.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)