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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!ddsw1!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD boot loader > 1024 cyls ? Message-ID: <2a6adu$gin@Notwerk.mcs.com> From: uban@Notwerk.mcs.com (Thomas Uban) Date: 21 Oct 1993 10:38:38 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation NNTP-Posting-Host: cluster.mcs.com Lines: 31 After installing FreeBSD on the second half of my IDE 212Mb HD, all seems ok. Then I recompile the kernel and copy it to /. When I try to boot the new kernel, the loader complains with: Error: C:1042 H:8 S:16 ... <forever> ... When I copy the original "working" kernel to a new name and boot it, I get similar results. I noted the warning during installation about disks with greater than 1024 cyls may have problems. Is this such a case, or is it just that the boot loader cannot cope? My disk is a Toshiba MK2224FC. Its native geometry is C: 770 H: 16 S: 38, but due to my braindead NEC Ultrlite's fixed geometry BIOS, if I want to share the disk with DOS, I have to run with C: 990 (2446) H: 10 S: 16. The original disk was 80MB (990 cyls) the Toshiba works out to 2446 cyls in the "logical" geometry. Yes, I know this is a performance hit, but I have no choice -- "they" make me run DOS... The partitioning looks something like this (pfdisk): Part ID First Last Name ---- --- ----- ---- -------- 0 6 1 989 DOSbi 1 165 990 2445 FreeBSD Any suggestions(flames) will be welcome(ignored)... --tnx --tom