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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install >1024 OK ? Date: 29 Apr 1996 17:29:25 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4m2qp5$9n@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4lfr4g$j5a@maud.ifi.uio.no> <4lg7gh$sgo@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.90.960422135056.24714B-100000@tulip.cs.odu.edu> <317C0D70.5DEB180@lambert.org> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : 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 : --- : Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present : or previous employers. Na, he probably means 1024Mb, not cylinders. They're the same usually, unless you have some sort of BIOS that "supports drives bigger than 1024Mb" :-). -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....