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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: solution to booting problem
Message-ID: <Sep.7.14.06.00.1992.283@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:06:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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A few days ago I posted that I was unable to boot after minibsd
installed itself to disk.  It turns out that it wants the partition
to be on a cylinder boundary.  I was using the first partition.
It was offset by one sector, to provide root for the master boot
block.  This isn't enough.  I recreated it starting at the second
cylinder, and it worked fine.