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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!news From: Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:46:45 -0600 Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32F0EC95.794BDF32@acm.org> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EAE731.2447@worldnet.att.net> <32EB55F2.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> <32EB735F.46E5@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: f181-199.net.wisc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34384 Paul A. Sakievich wrote: > > Ron Bolin wrote: > > > > Your root partition of FreeBSD must reside _within_ the first 1024 cylinders of your > > > first drive (that is, the entire / partition must end within about 500MB of your > > > drive). At least, with most BIOSes this is true. Just for the record: I have installed FreeBSD on a friend's box and he insisted on putting his FreeBSD installation after a 1000 MB DOS partition on a 3G IDE disk. The installation worked. He has AMI BIOS, so I think it is smart enough to load the kernel image from >1024 cylinders. BTW, he sez he wanted the entire second disk for FreeBSD. The auto partition layout does an ok job in making sure that "/" falls way within the first 1024 cylinders. -- Gabor Kincses (gabor@acm.org)