On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:57:41AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
The MBR contains the FreeBSD bootloader. At startup, the machine displays
HA!
F1 FreeBSD
F2 BSD
But when I press F2 I just get a beep.
which proves conclusively that I was right, it isn't an OpenBSD problem,
as
.
As for why I thought that OpenBSD wouldn't boot above cylinder 1024, I
googled around and found a number of (probably old) documents about
dual-booting OpenBSD saying this was a problem(*).
yeah, the second one was even (supposedly) written for 3.6, which was a
full release after the 8G boundaries were
I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.0 on two machines in spare space at the
end of the disk.
It turns out that OpenBSD is unbootable if the root filesystem starts above
cylinder 1024. However, this isn't a problem for FreeBSD; I guess it makes
use of newer BIOS calls.
I can still boot OpenBSD on
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:49:43PM +, Brian Candler wrote:
I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.0 on two machines in spare space at the
end of the disk.
It turns out that OpenBSD is unbootable if the root filesystem starts above
cylinder 1024. However, this isn't a problem for FreeBSD; I
hmm, on Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:49:43PM +, Brian Candler said that
I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.0 on two machines in spare space at the
end of the disk.
i am booting openbsd fine using gag from around the 60th gigabyte...
amaaq fdisk wd0
Disk: wd0 geometry: 9729/255/63
Brian Candler wrote:
I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.0 on two machines in spare space at the
end of the disk.
It turns out that OpenBSD is unbootable if the root filesystem starts above
cylinder 1024. However, this isn't a problem for FreeBSD; I guess it makes
use of newer BIOS calls.
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