Re: SCA SCSI drives for Ultra 1

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Michael wrote:
> > >                      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? ;)

  Yeah really!

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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