FBSD boot loader?

Jud judmarc at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 13 17:59:08 PST 2005


On 13 Jan 2005 09:02:42 -0000, John Conover <conover at rahul.net> wrote:

>
> 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.

Somewhere between 1997 and 1999 this stopped being a problem for FreeBSD,  
which will boot from anywhere the BIOS allows it to.  See <URL:  
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html>.

Jud


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