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Date:      Sat, 07 Oct 2000 15:13:28 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Mike Cummings <mook@drizzle.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't boot to install 4.0
Message-ID:  <39DFA008.1DC1006E@urx.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010071500190.14359-100000@drizzle.com> <39DF9F1B.52B322A7@urx.com>

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Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> Mike Cummings wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD over my old Linux partition. I have a 20G
> > IDE drive with a 10G partition for windows and 10G allotted to Linux (soon
> > to be FreeBSD). It's an Athlon 700 w/128M RAM, and when I try to boot,
> > with floppy or CD-ROM, I get the following right after booting starts:
> >
> > /boot.config: -P
> > Keyboard: yes
> > /
> > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=0000567f
> > eax=00000208 ebx=00000000 ecx=c0010010 edp=00000100
> > esi=0000000b edi=00000005 ebp=000003f4 esp=000003c4
> > es=f000  ds=ec00  es=1000  fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9e35
> > es:eip = 0f 32 66 0d 00 00 08 00-0f 30 c3 66 b9 10 00 01
> > ss:eip = f4 56 03 01 00 00 00 01-00 00 3d 1d 00 ec 6a 1d
> > System Halted
> >
> > This is very unsatisfying. Any ideas on what I could try next? I couldn't
> > find anything about this problem on the net.

This is a different problem. You would hit the one I mentioned after
you install it.

Kent

> 
> It was there but you didn't recognize it. The problem with 4.0 is that
> it has a 1024 cylinder boot rule. Your / partition has to come before
> cylinder 1024. That works out to be ~8.4GB with LBA turned on. You
> can't install FreeBSD 4.0 in the 2nd partition and make it work.
> FreeBSD 4.1 doesn't have a 1024 cylinder problem and would work.
> 
> Kent
> 
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------.
> > >     Mike Cummings    |   "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."   <
> > >   mook@drizzle.com   |                  -- Bertrand Russell                 <
> > >     ICQ #34152632    |                                                      <
> > `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
> >
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