Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

[Kent Stewart]

Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works
> > if boot0 knows about it.  Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the fbsd
> > slice?  Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 should work just fine if they
> > are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find out
> > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder?
> 
> This should work, yes.

I tried this with a boot1 from FreeBSD 4.4-rc and get a BTX error. I
had to go back to the boot1 from 4.3 before I could boot.

Kent

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