Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:48:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: alk@pobox.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad disk label Message-ID: <385E5DCF.5DF2ED17@3-cities.com> References: <86224.945687769@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:03:32 CST, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > > This disk is working just fine, but I can't boot from it, as the > > loader won't read the slice 3 file systems. How can I fix the > > beginning/ending sector coordinates? > > As far as I know, this is still a limitation of FreeBSD -- our boot > blocks and/or loader (not sure) don't work for partitions beyond the 1GB > limit. My / partition (wd0s1a) is 4GB but with LBA it is under 1023 cyls. The 13.1GB UDMA33 drive was split into the 4GB / partition and then the rest is what I called /usr4. If it wasn't so much fun to backup and redo, I would do it much different now with a much smaller / partition. That is part of the learning experience. Kent > > The usual hackaround is to create a small root partition near the > beginning of the disk for FreeBSD. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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