Subject: Re: overcoming BIOS disk size limitations
To: James Wetterau <jwjr@panix.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/28/2003 17:04:45
> The problem is that during the installation, even though, after I
> wrote the disklabel sysinst correctly sees a 100GB disk, it also won't
> let me touch anything after the first 32GB of the disk. It won't let
> me access any of the cylinders beyond there or create a BSD partition
> that has any part after the first 32GB's.
Sysinst is/was f&%$ed, for some reason it applied incorrect artificial
limits to the space that could be used for the netbsd partition.
I removed some incorrect checks last week.
(I'm not sure I removed one that would give a 32G limit though.)
> I'm now installing. Once I'm done installing, will there be some way
> to get to the rest of the disk? How would I do that?
See disklabel(8)
David
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