On 11/17/13 14:02, Nick Holland wrote: > On 11/17/13 12:53, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote: >> Le 2013-11-17 20:27, dmitry.sensei a écrit : >>> What about 1Tb disk? Is CHS mode correct for this disks? >> >> I done the test using Virtualization. >> Not tried with a physical hard drive 1 TB. > > The smallest common non-SSD laptop drive is probably around 500G now, > and 1TB is routine on desktops. At least some (many? most?) of these > machines are now shipping with UEFI boot, and a lot of them will be > pre-loaded with Windows, with minimal resources to reload Windows from > scratch. > > The target (and worst-case) audience is the person who bought a laptop > or desktop pre-loaded with Windows 8, and wants to install OpenBSD with > as little disruption to the existing system as possible. > > I appreciate the efforts, but we need something more comprehensive. > > Sounds like I need to go buy a modern Windows system. :-/
Although your FAQ warns about keeping the OpenBSD partition within the first 128G, this limit will be a showstopper for people unable to shrink the preloaded windows partition below 128G. I've appended a patch (with help from krw) that helped me double the limit in July,2011 after the Extended partition support changes[1] were added. [1]<http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=130082509621274&w=2> Index: biosvar.h =================================================================== RCS file: /a8v/pub/cvsroot/OpenBSD/src/sys/arch/amd64/include/biosvar.h,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -p -w -b -u -r1.14 biosvar.h --- biosvar.h 26 Apr 2011 17:33:17 -0000 1.14 +++ biosvar.h 27 Apr 2011 12:03:05 -0000 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ #define BOOTARG_OFF (NBPG*2) #define BOOTARG_LEN (NBPG*1) #define BOOTBIOS_ADDR (0x7c00) -#define BOOTBIOS_MAXSEC ((1 << 28) - 1) +#define BOOTBIOS_MAXSEC ((1 << 29) - 1) /* BIOS configure flags */ #define BIOSF_BIOS32 0x0001
