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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 07:20:16 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32560C30.3E12@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bba9f8$8c05e240$b0675ac2@defau> <52qq1q$1a2@anorak.coverform.lan> <531n1i$fc@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Thomas D.G. Sandford wrote: > > Brian Somers (brian@anorak.coverform.lan) wrote: > : In article <52pium$14h@newsbr.eunet.fr>, > : fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) writes: > : > Vlad D. Nebolsin <nebo@glas.apc.org> wrote: > : >>Resume: DON'T MOUNT >400Mb DOS PARTITIONS or you will nuts with deadful > : >> system. > : > Actually, ithe limit is not 400 Mb, but around 500 MB (I guess it is > : > 528 MB, but someone had better confirm/infirm). It has to do with the > : > bios boot code. More details were given (must have been last year) in > : > Unix Reviiew. > > : It's >= 512 Mb ;O > > I believe it is ~1GB - I have a 2GB drive partitioned not quite equally. > The (slightly) smaller partition mounts fine, mounting the larger is a recipe > for total disaster. Fortunately I bought a DAT drive with the same order... > 1024 cyls * 16 heads * 63 sectors = 1,032,192 sectors = 516,096K = 504MB if you do it in binary mode. The actual requirement is that the ROM BIOS must be able to locate and load the kernel; it can then load everything else from the whole drive. If your, BIOS, like so many, has the above limits on direct access to the hard drive, the whole kernel must reside below that limit. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |