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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.1 (i386) and hard disk.. Date: 12 Aug 1996 08:57:10 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4umrl6$i04@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <96221.1609533CQBJOZ@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu> <6EX$6B53o$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) wrote: > There can be only ONE *BSD partition on any physical disk. > You have to create one large 1500MB partition of type 0xA5. While you are doubtlessly right for NetBSD, you wrote ``*BSD'' and are wrong with this: FreeBSD can handle multiple slices with the 0xa5 signature, but it will boot only off the first one. Of course, there's only limited sense in doing this. The only situation i can think of where this is to be _enforced_ is if your disk requires bad144. Then it's the only way to restrict the first slice (where the root partition and thus the kernel is located) below the BIOS-ficticous cylinder 1024. Since bad144 places the bad sector table at the end of the slice (i'm not sure whether NetBSD has changed this), loading the kernel file could require accesses to the bad144 table, so it must be in the BIOS-visible area of the disk. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j