Subject: Re: Installation on partitions beyond 4GB limit
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 10/23/2000 11:52:01
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 06:43:28PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:45:49AM +0000, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> > I think it depends on the device used to access the harddisk. If the
> > device can cope with disk > 4GB in a way, the bootblocks could probably
> > utilize the device support to boot from a partition above 4GB.
>
> Not the current ones. They get a traditional trackdisk.device-compatible
> IORequest from the OS, pointing to the start of the boot partition,
> that is, 2^32 bytes maximum range.
Oh yes, thanks for pointing this out. I missed the point that the
kickstart must load the bootblocks somehow ;-) Thus without an updated
loader there is no way to have a boot partition beyound the 4gb barrier.
Gunther