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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news.sinica!ywliu From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD cannot boot from fdisk partition 4 Date: 23 Aug 1995 07:19:45 GMT Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica Lines: 19 Message-ID: <41ekqh$3r@gate.sinica.edu.tw> References: <41dppg$q2t@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] 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. -- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444 Win95 isn't that bad : it helps a lot of ordinary users become OS experts without studying one single chapter of any OS text books.