Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 10:06:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Waite <brad@ssbaptist.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Boot Problems Message-ID: <20000520140528.KUGD22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005191014010.4839-100000@hobbes>
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On 19-May-00 Brad Waite wrote: > On Fri, 19 May 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 19-May-00 Brad Waite wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Finally got 4.0 installed on my 40G (apparently was a cable problem). Now it >> > doesn't want to boot. I used fdisk to set slice a bootable, but it can't seem >> > to find what it needs: >> >> Hmm, it looks like your / file system may not be below the 1024 cylinder >> limit, which is about equal to 8.4 gig with LBA enabled. > > / is on ad0s1a which is defined 3652M, well below the 1024 boundary. I'm at a > loss. When I use DOS's 'fdisk /mbr', I can't even get the FBSD boot prompt. > I'm now trying to reinstall on a different drive, but I'm now having problems > extracting stuff from the CD. Does your BIOS configuration use LBA when reporting the geometry though? (You can tell by number of heads > 64). If it doesn't, you are limited to only 540M for your /. >> > No /boot/loader >> > >> >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >> > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel >> > boot: >> > No /kernel >> > >> > Where's my problem? Could it be a problem with my ad0s1a being 3652M? >> > >> > I've installed dozens of FBSD's before, but I feel pretty sheepish on this one. >> > >> > -Brad -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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