From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 14:13:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25861 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25824 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Paul@FreeBSD.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.82.176] (helo=paulf1) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.053 #1) id 0zftMn-0000BH-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:12:58 +0000 Message-ID: <003c01be1276$f39016e0$20ce710a@paulf1> From: "Paul Fletcher" To: Subject: Boot Sector Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 22:07:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3007.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a bit of a problem, Im new to FreeBSD and what I wanted to do was to install ver. 2.2.6 alongside win95 so that i could have the option of booting either 95 or BSD at startup. The installation went OK but whatever I tried, I couldn't boot BSD at all. When i typed in "0:wd(1,b)kernel" i kept getting the error message "error: c: 432129 >1023 (Bios limit)". So i read the manual and lo and behold it told me that my bios needs the root file system to end before cylinder 1024 otherewise everything will go OK but it wont boot. How do I do this?, even if you could just point me in the right direction I would be gratefull, I need something more exciting than win95, It is sickeningly user friendly, but non_the_less necessary due to college using windows and most of my friends...... Thanks A Lot Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message