From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 09:36:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18439 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18432 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23634; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:35:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:35:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dean Hollister cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Kernel problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > After a stable cvsup, build/installworld and compile of new kernel, I get > the following error, immediately after the boot prompt: > > Error: C:1094 > 1023 (BIOS Limit). > > When I reboot the old kernel, no problem. > > Any ideas? Your root partition violates the 1024 cylinder limitation of your system. It s happened that your old kernel was all the way below the boundary, but your new kernel uses blocks above it. You'll have to repartition the root partition to be below cylinder 1024. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message