Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:40:36 -0300 (ADT) From: Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> To: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Cc: Peter Kurpis <kurpis@gte.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: installed 3.2 and can't boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008291539130.69289-100000@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000829203531.u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
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Hi, <SNIP> > 3.2 requires that the root partition is contained within the first 1024 > cylinders of the disk. Your partitiontable below suggests that this is not > the case, either shrink the windows partition so that / fits within the > first 1024 cylinders, Partition magic or install on a second harddrive. I > don't remember if it's 4.x or 5.0 that supports booting from beyond the > 1024th cylinder but that might be your third option, to upgrade FreeBSD. </SNIP> Support for booting past the 1024th cylinder came in FreeBSD 4.1. Maybe you want to install 4.1 instead. Theo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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