Subject: Re: Large disk on a DecStation 5000/120
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/22/1999 10:23:57
Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Yes. I have a 5000/150 (same motherboard, r4000 CPU) with a 4.5-gig
> IBM oem-version commodity drive. Works great.
> Built several releases on it, in fact.

Have you tried with a root-filesystem >2GB, and somehow making sure that
/boot lives above that barrier?  I'm not sure how you'd guarantee this,
but it'd be a good FAQ entry if you can possibly test it.

/boot itself uses the PROM routines as well, so if /netbsd had parts
above 2GB it may have problems there too...

Simon.