From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 10: 7: 5 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 10:07:02 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cwcom.net (email.cwcom.net [195.44.0.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C32037B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from desktop ([195.44.201.164]) by cwcom.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:05:19 +0000 Message-ID: <000201c05d53$e3c4fb20$a4c92cc3@desktop> From: "John Duffy" To: Subject: Installation Problem Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:03:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My kit: SOYO 6BA+ Mainboard PIII 450 (100MHz, 4.5x) 64 MB ECC Seagate ST317221A The disk is partitioned as so: P1 4GB FreeBSD P2 3GB NTFS (Windows 2000) P3 1GB FAT P4 Extended Partition L5 3GB Linux ext2 L6 1GB Linux ext2 L7 3GB Linux ext2 L8 1GB Linux ext2 L9 441M Linux Swap First of all, I have read the installation sections of the FreeBSD Handbook, the FAQ and the Multi-OS article. I understand that the root slice of FreeBSD must be below cylinder 1024, and I'm pretty convinced mine is, but I cannot get FreeBSD to install. During Installation the following happens: FDISK Partition Editor reports: Disk Geometry: 2096 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 33672240 sectors (16441MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 8193087 8193149 ad0s1 1 freebsd 165 = other partitions.... When I try to create a root partition using the Disklabel editir I get the following message: "This region cannot be used for your root partition as the FreeBSD boot code cannot deal witha root partition created in that location. Please choose another location or amller siae for your root partition and try again." Now, my FreeBSD partition (slice) is the first partition - deliberately - on the disk. The partition is 4GB, a quarter(ish), of a 16.4GB disk, so it should be contained in the first 2096/4 cylinders which is well below the 1024 cylinder limit. What am I doing wrong? Everything else works fine; Windows 2000 boots from the MBR and I boot Linux from a floppy. Regards John Duffy jbduffy@cwcom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message