From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 07:02:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA19165 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 07:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA19157 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 07:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id GAA02372; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 06:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 06:54:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Gary Chrysler cc: Steve Marmer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panic mounting root In-Reply-To: <3205E7D1.61C@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > 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! I think this refers only to IDE/EIDE drives. I have a 2.1G Conner fast scsi 2 installed as a second hard drive on an Adaptec 1542CF, and FreeBSD is running in the *last* 660 mb. on that drive (booting from the OS/2 boot manager). Annelise > > -Enjoy > Gary > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours > The Borg... Where minds meet > (207) 929-3848 >