Re: FBSD boot loader?

2005-01-13 Thread 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

Re: FBSD boot loader?

2005-01-13 Thread 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 c

Re: FBSD boot loader?

2005-01-13 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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