5.0-R won't boot partition 60G into a drive

Sheldon Hearn sheldonh at starjuice.net
Sat May 17 08:36:15 PDT 2003


On (2003/05/17 17:30), Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> For as long as I remember, FreeBSD has had issues booting a kernel
> beyond the first 1GB of a disk.  Some time last year, changes were made
> that allowed for this, but they were backed out because they caused
> other problems, and I don't remember them being brought back in.

See Alexander's reply involving the use of the disk packet interface,
which I completely missed when it was imported, and which looks cool.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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