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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!news.netins.net!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!hookup!gatech2!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting a newly installed 2.1.0-RELEASE Date: 14 Dec 1995 01:21:09 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4anu65$1ml@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <8188435562431@averroe.polito.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <8188435562431@averroe.polito.it>, Paolo Tealdi <tealdi@averroe.polito.it> wrote: >I've installed succesfully a partition of my NEW hard disk >Quantum .It's a 850 Mb 1647/16/63. > >First i've installed a DOS partition of 350 Mb (less than one half) so the >first block of the FreeBSD partition isn't over 1024 cylinder. Actually, the *kernel* must be before the 1024th cylinder, as that's all the PC BIOS can see at boot time (once the kernel is loaded, the BIOS is ignored, so the whole disk is usable). Unfortunately, the kernel may be anywhere in the partition, hence the problems you describe. I have successfully used two FreeBSD partitions with 2.1.0-RELEASE (before I decided to dedicate the whole disk to it). The first one, 20MB in size, is located within the first 1024 cylinders and contains the root filesystem. The second can be anywhere and have any size you like, and is used for the other FreeBSD filesystems (/var, /usr, /home etc). James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'