From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 08:05:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24651 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24615 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-146.laker.net [208.0.233.46]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id LAA22991; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:04:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199809161504.LAA22991@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Roman Katsnelson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:03:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: installation problems Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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