Re: FBSD boot loader?

[Jud]

On 13 Jan 2005 09:02:42 -, John Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot
PC system using the FBSD boot loader?
I presume there is, but I couldn't find it in the handbook. Maybe I
missed it.
Somewhere between 1997 and 1999 this stopped being a problem for FreeBSD,  
which will boot from anywhere the BIOS allows it to.  See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html>.

Jud
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Re: FBSD boot loader?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 
> Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot
> PC system using the FBSD boot loader?
> 
> I presume there is, but I couldn't find it in the handbook. Maybe I
> missed it.
> 

Not if you have a reasonably recent BIOS.
FreeBSD can handle it just fine as long as the BIOS can deal with
it to get started.

This is a question handled often and I believe there is a FAQ on it
that can explain it much better than I can.

jerry

> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> -- 
> 
> John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/
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Re: FBSD boot loader?

[Christian Hiris]

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On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:02, John Conover wrote:
> Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot
> PC system using the FBSD boot loader?

This depends if your computers BIOS supports disk packet interface, see 'man 8 
boot0cfg', scroll down to "-o options", option packet. If your box is not too 
old, this should work. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot0cfg&sektion=8

Cheers,
ch

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FBSD boot loader?

[John Conover]

Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot
PC system using the FBSD boot loader?

I presume there is, but I couldn't find it in the handbook. Maybe I
missed it.

Thanks,

John

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