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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tfs.com!usenet From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install problem with FreeBSD-2.0R on P5/PCI/WD IDE Message-ID: <D00n7s.A6o@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems References: <KELLY.94Nov28094452@woody.fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 06:26:16 GMT Lines: 21 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