Re: SCA SCSI drives for Ultra 1

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Julian Coleman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >                      You have to keep the boot slice under a certain
> > size (ISTR it was 128GB), but that's about it.
>
> See `man boot` on a current or netbsd-5 system:
>
>  The OBP on Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 machines can only boot from the first
>  4Gb of the disk.
>
> Technically, only the bootloader and kernel need to be in the first  
> 4Gb,
> but this is easiest to achieve if the whole partition is 4Gb or  
> less ;-)

Who needs a root filesystem bigger than 4GB anyway? ;)

have fun
Michael

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