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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:51:35 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
Cc:        Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Booting off Large Drives
Message-ID:  <20020624054913.H32630-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020623104420.D359@fishballoon.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote:

> You're not trying to boot from a partition beyond the first 1024 cylinders
> of the disk, are you?  A lot of older machines had issues with this (see

No my root partition was at the very start of the disk and small enough
(although the slice probably extended past that mark). I wrote out the
partitions again and it all worked so I must have stuffed up last time.

Thanks for you help,

Andrew


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