Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:11:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Error: C: 1026 > 1023 (BIOS limit) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218101050.13646F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802180908.JAA20840@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Anyway, now when I try to boot FreeBSD on the second disk (via > bootinst menu F2->F5) I'm getting that infamous > Error: C: 1026 > 1023 (BIOS limit) and the boot process stops. Oops!! > I always thought at that point FreeBSD has taken over the control > of the boot process and the BIOS isn't in the game anymore. Not until after the kernel is loaded. Boot still relies on the BIOS to get the kernel into memory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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