Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:07:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error C:1027 > 1023 bios limit Message-ID: <36B2857D.7EA50CC6@3-cities.com> References: <19990130134514.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901300339.OAA06625@allegro.lemis.com> <19990130141411.N8473@freebie.lemis.com>
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Sounds like the system doesn't have LBA turned on in the bios. Kent Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 22:39:50 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> > >> You're going to have to repartition the disk. Your machine obviously > >> has a 2 GB limit on what the BIOS can access. In the Microsoft world, > >> the Microsoft driver takes care of accessing the rest of the disk, but > >> that doesn't help you when you want to boot. You'll have to ensure > >> that your root partition is completely below the 2 GB limit. If > >> you're lucky, you have two Microsoft partitions (primary and > >> extended), and you could move the extended partition to the end of the > >> disk. > > > > That was what I thought from reading the FreeBSD book. However it seems > > totaly unreasonable that a machine as new as this would suffer from > > this limit. > > As requested in the .sig: > > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > > Yes, it seems totally unreasonable, but that's what the BIOS is saying. > > > Especially since it _ships_ with a *G disk. > > In most cases, that doesn't make any difference. The manufacturers > expect you to stick with Microsoft, and even 512 kB is enough for > that. > > > Is it possible that I have told FreebSD the wrongthing about disk > > geometry? > > It's possible but unlikely, unless you have reinstalled Microsoft as > well. If you had just changed the partition table, you wouldn't be > able to boot Microsoft either. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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