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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!utk.edu!usenet From: Chris Larson <larson@kenner.cs.utk.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "Can not mount root files" Date: 30 Dec 1996 13:35:25 -0500 Organization: University of Tennessee Lines: 18 Message-ID: <7evi9j7udu.fsf@kenner.cs.utk.edu> References: <32b60e76.2574518@library.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenner.cs.utk.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33259 I'm pretty sure that the main root (/) partition for the FreeBSD system needs to be in an area on the disk which is under the 1024 cylinder mark. Putting it on the final 500 megs is probably you're problem. Try putting it as the first or second partition and make sure it's completely under the 540meg area. Since / only needs to be about 25megs, you can squeeze it in and then put the /usr partition anywhere you want. good luck -- -------------------------------------------- Chris Larson larson@cs.utk.edu System Administrator - Computer Science Dept. University of Tennessee - Knoxville