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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:40:36 -0300 (ADT)
From:      Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>
To:        Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
Cc:        Peter Kurpis <kurpis@gte.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: installed 3.2 and can't boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008291539130.69289-100000@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000829203531.u98jobj@stud.hh.se>

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Hi,

<SNIP>
> 3.2 requires that the root partition is contained within the first 1024
> cylinders of the disk. Your partitiontable below suggests that this is not
> the case, either shrink the windows partition so that / fits within the
> first 1024 cylinders, Partition magic or install on a second harddrive. I
> don't remember if it's 4.x or 5.0 that supports booting from beyond the
> 1024th cylinder but that might be your third option, to upgrade FreeBSD.
</SNIP> 

Support for booting past the 1024th cylinder came in FreeBSD 4.1. Maybe
you want to install 4.1 instead.



Theo



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