Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:03:14 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Roman Katsnelson" <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installation problems Message-ID: <199809161504.LAA22991@laker.net>
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:35:53 -0400, Roman Katsnelson wrote: >Steve Friedrich wrote: >> >> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:47:17 +0200, CHARL wrote: >> >> >I have done a bit of more reading on my "missing kernel problem" and think >> >that the problem could be that my boot.config file does not install in the >> >root. >> > >> >Now how do I go about fixing this? Also my disk parameters are set as >> >follows: >> > >> >- /dos 502M (unfortunetly I have to have dos on drive aswell) >> >- / 96M >> >> I think it's because you've laid out your disk wrong. I believe the >> root partition has to fit within the first 1024 sectors, and your's >> doesn't. You have to shrink either or both of your dos partition >> and/or root to fit within 504M. This information appears in the copy >> of "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey, but no where in the >> handbook... > >You know, I've read this too, but in my system at home I have an 8G >drive with the first 4 gigs taken up by FAT and the second 4 by BSD and >it works fine... Is it just a freak accident, or is the rule only >applied SOMEtimes? > >Roman It's a common BIOS problem, and your BIOS may be a newer BIOS that doesn't suffer the problem. Also, is your drive SCSI ?? This is only an IDE problem, I believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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