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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dciteleport.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with two hard drives Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:38:12 GMT Organization: This house? Are you kidding? Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5ct79t$jou@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <32EA5951.14C5@pgmstr.com> <32EAE731.2447@worldnet.att.net> <32EB55F2.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> <32EB735F.46E5@worldnet.att.net> <32F0EC95.794BDF32@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: man-as2s53.erols.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34900 Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> wrote: >Paul A. Sakievich wrote: >> >> Ron Bolin wrote: >> >> > > Your root partition of FreeBSD must reside _within_ the first 1024 cylinders of your >> > > first drive (that is, the entire / partition must end within about 500MB of your >> > > drive). At least, with most BIOSes this is true. >Just for the record: I have installed FreeBSD on a friend's box >and he insisted on putting his FreeBSD installation after a >1000 MB DOS partition on a 3G IDE disk. The installation worked. >He has AMI BIOS, so I think it is smart enough to load the kernel >image from >1024 cylinders. BTW, he sez he wanted the entire >second disk for FreeBSD. The auto partition layout does an ok >job in making sure that "/" falls way within the first 1024 >cylinders. Also, newer BIOSes do SCSI-style cylinder translation for IDE drive with >1024 cylinders. With this arrangement, you can access every spot on the disk thru the BIOS, letting you put FreeBSD anywhere. Lee C.