From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 05:23:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA14826 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 05:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA14821 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 05:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-19.ime.net [206.231.148.148]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA09869; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:23:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3205E7D1.61C@ime.net> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 08:23:45 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Marmer CC: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Panic mounting root References: <199608050404.AAA19034@gold.interlog.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Marmer wrote: > > I get a panic on boot, after all the hardware stuff, about the inability > to mount root. > > Hardware: 4G Quantum Atlas FastWide Scsi-2 > AHA1542CF FAST SCSI-2 > (using a 6?-50 pin adapter) > > I have enabled the AHA1542 option "Translate Drives >1G". Since newfs > worked I assume the problems with this have been fixed. My disk starts > with a 950Meg DOS partition (slice). The next "slice" is 1G FreeBSD. > I've been pretty careful ensuring the root part'n is fully below the > magic 1G boundary. Have I not been careful enough? Could something else > be the problem? > > Thanks for any and all help... Not to start a war! I know some dissagree! But bootable partitions *must* be under cylinder 1024. (504M) This is a limitation of the PC System BIOS boot code! -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848