Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:24:18 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Chris Csanady" <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Message-ID: <4325.843506658@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:32:09 PDT." <96Sep23.113217pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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In message <96Sep23.113217pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ es: >In message <6054.843037098@time.cdrom.com> Jordan wrote: >>I think you neglected to RTFM during the install and made a root >>filesystem which spanned cyl 1024! :-( > >I think that everyone has too much confidence in this error message not being >a bug in the boot code! When I reported this a long time ago, everyone told m >e that my root partition must span cyl 1024, when it doesn't. Chris even incl >uded his disklabel in his original message; his disk has 1002 cylinders, and h >is root partition is on 654-685... It can also mean that your root filesystem badly needs a fsck... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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