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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Install >1024 OK ?
Message-ID: <DqE549.9oE.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <4lfr4g$j5a@maud.ifi.uio.no> <4lg7gh$sgo@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:55:20 GMT
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In article <4lg7gh$sgo@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes:
>: Can FreeBSD be installed and booted above the 1024 cylinder limit ?
>
>No. That's why we call it a limit.
Presumably only the root partition has to be within the BIOS accessible
area. Once the BSD kernel is running this stupid limit is irrelevant.
-- Richard
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