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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install >1024 OK ?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:51:28 -0700
Organization: Me
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Ragnar wrote:
] On 22 Apr 1996, Bill Paul wrote:
] > Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Anders Moe
] > (andersmo@ifi.uio.no) had the courage to say:
] >
] > : Can FreeBSD be installed and booted above the 1024 cylinder limit
?
] >
] > No. That's why we call it a limit.
]
] Gee, that's odd, since my freebsd partition starts on 1026, and boots
] fine all the time.
I'd be interested in knowing how you get the value "1026" into
the 10 bit (0..1023) area reserved for the Cylinder number in
the DOS INT 13 interface used by the DOS Master Boot Record
and the FreeBSD second stage boot.
Are you *sure* you are talking about BIOS apparent geometry,
and not the geometry shown by the FreeBSD fdisk program?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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