FBSD boot loader?
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Thu Jan 13 07:01:29 PST 2005
>
>
> Is there a 1024 cylinder limit on the first slice for a dual boot
> PC system using the FBSD boot loader?
>
> I presume there is, but I couldn't find it in the handbook. Maybe I
> missed it.
>
Not if you have a reasonably recent BIOS.
FreeBSD can handle it just fine as long as the BIOS can deal with
it to get started.
This is a question handled often and I believe there is a FAQ on it
that can explain it much better than I can.
////jerry
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> --
>
> John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/
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