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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Install problem with FreeBSD-2.0R on P5/PCI/WD IDE
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References:  <KELLY.94Nov28094452@woody.fsl.noaa.gov>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 06:26:16 GMT
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kelly@woody.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) wrote:
>
> In <JKH.94Nov27134122@whisker.hubbard.ie>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
>    If I don't miss my guess, you've got FreeBSD trying to install at a
>    cylinder >1024.  As I noted in the TROUBLESHOOTING guide on the
>    first boot floppy (uh, are people reading that? :-)
> 
> I noticed that bit.  But (F)disk says my FreeBSD slice starts at
> cylinder 876 and extends all the way to cylinder 2100.  That should be
> OK, right?

Almost:  The / filesystem must >END< before or at cylinder 1023, other
wise you might not be able to load /kernel from the bootblock

Your problem sounds weird, could you send me an email with all the
details ?  I missed out on the original posting.

Poul-Henning 
FreeBSD Core team
phk@freebsd.org