From: "Darryl Okahata" <darrylo_at_soco.agilent.com> > "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw_at_withagen.nl> wrote: > > > After several reinstalls I've come to the conclusion that installing > > i386 and amd64 in 50G partitions does not work. > > See the "-o packet" option of boot0cfg: > > -o options > A comma-separated string of any of the following options may be > specified (with ``no'' prepended as necessary): > > packet Use the disk packet (BIOS Int 0x13 extensions) interface, > as as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing > disk I/O. This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but > requires specific BIOS support. The default is > `nopacket'. > Although I see your point, I need/want a selector which understands the fact that the slice on which the bootcode is is at the far, far end of the disk. ASnd from what I gather, this will just replace the selector code which normally lives in the MBR??? --WjWReceived on Thu May 13 2004 - 12:24:10 UTC
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