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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD cannot boot from fdisk partition 4 Date: 23 Aug 1995 17:01:16 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 24 Message-ID: <41fmss$fdl@overload.lbl.gov> References: <41dppg$q2t@overload.lbl.gov> <41ekqh$3r@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <412jv8$232@sentinel.synapse.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <41ekqh$3r@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, <ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@gracie.lbl.gov) stands accused of saying the following on 22 Aug 1995 23:38:24 GMT: >: I just discovered that FreeBSD cannot boot from physical partition 4 (wd0s4, >: not something like wd03d). It can boot from wd0s1, wd0s2, and wd0s3. >: If partition 3 (wd0s3) is a FreeBSD partition, then installation will give >: an error message: >: "This region cannot be used for your root partition ..." > >How large is your hard disk ? I believe the root partition exceeds 1024 >cylinder limit. > Your are right. If I start the 4th partition before 540MB, then it will be bootable. I wonder if this can be fixed in Release 2.1. Thanks, -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |