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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting a newly installed 2.1.0-RELEASE Date: 20 Dec 1995 16:03:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4b9c55$9jc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <8188435562431@averroe.polito.it> <4anu65$1ml@parody.tecc.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) writes: > 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 don't think this is Paolo's problem. The default installation assigns some 20 or 30 MB to /, so given from the figures above, the root partition should be below any imaginary cylinder 1024. It rather looks that the geometry ideas of BIOS and FreeBSD differ. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)