Re: Install problem with 1024th cylinder

[Michael Grice <grice_(_at_)_binc_(_dot_)_net>]

* Michael Grice <grice_(_at_)_berbee_(_dot_)_com> [001007 15:32] wrote:

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> I think this is different; I ran into something similar on Thursday. I
> have a 12 GB hard drive on my laptop, with a Linux partition I use for
> booting with LILO (definitely below the first 1024 cylinders) and a
> Windows 2000 (sigh) partition I mostly use under VMware (I have got to
> get that running under OBSD). I reserved half the drive for two more
> partitions, one for OBSD (haven't quite decided about the other one).
> 
> When I tried to create a OBSD partition of about 3 GB, it told me that
> the size I wanted to use was over the limit. So I created a partition
> in Linux, booted back into OBSD, and tried to edit the partition in
> OBSD. Even though it saw the offset as 11904165 and the size as 5767335,
> it wouldn't let me give it a size over 4530330. [Sorry, don't remember
> the units.]

It looks like I might be running into an issue with the maximum
partition size in OBSD; I tried to create a ~3GB partition with the 2.7
installation disk and got the same results. Now that I think about it, I
have never installed a partition larger than 2 GB in OBSD. Is there a
limit to the maximum size of a partition in OBSD, or do I need to do
something else with fdisk?
--Michael