Subject: One more thing on "booting from beyond cylinder 1023"
To: None <linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG,>
From: Baw <baw@wuccrc.wustl.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/22/1997 02:21:28
One other quirk that I figure I'd share:
With a true cylinder/head/secor geometry of 7752/16/63, I figured
I could have multiplied # of head by 8, divided # of cylinder by 8
and get a remapped geometry of 969/128/63. Neither NetBSD
1.3_ALPHA nor Slackware's installation tool worked with 969/128/63.
Sacrificing 8 real cylinders and remapping the disk to 968/128/63
worked.
Thanks again.
Baw