Order of multi OS system

Dominic Mitchell dom at happygiraffe.net
Wed May 30 09:50:50 BST 2001


On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:55:43PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:12:17PM +0100, Darren Evans wrote:
> > I want, FreeBSD, w2k and Linux.  I know FreeBSD has the root
> > partition must be below 1024 cylinders thing, not sure about the
> > others.
> 
> How many disks have you got?  The 1024 cylinders limit is a BIOS problem,
> I believe, not a FreeBSD limit.

FreeBSD used to be limited to starting at a point < 8Gb.  It got over
this about the time of 4.1-RELEASE, but when I was installing
4.0-RELEASE last year, I had to use some custom patches to get it
working[1].

-Dom

[1] And I kept forgetting to reapply them after each make world.  Doh!
    No Boot!




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