In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Oberman writes: >I have confirmed that fdisk under sysinstall(8) writes a boot block >that will work for booting from slices that begin past cylinder >1023. boot0cfg(8) and fdisk(8) write an MBR that is unable to boot >from a slice that starts above 1023.
Did you try "boot0cfg -o packet"? From boot0cfg(8): packet Use the disk packet (BIOS Int 0x13 extensions) interface, as as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing disk I/O. This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but requires specific BIOS support. The default is `nopacket'. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message