From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 6:25:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-246.telepath.com [216.14.1.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3284F37B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 06:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33340 invoked by uid 100); 13 Sep 2000 13:24:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14783.32788.78881.441898@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:24:36 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.4 boot limitations? X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to install 3.4 on the third slice of a system that has -current installed on the second slice. During the "partition" phrase, I verify that the system believes the third slice ends before cylinder 1024, change it to a FreeBSD slice, and then go to label. Trying to create a root file system always fails with a message about the FreeBSD boot loader not being able to deal with such a root partition, and I should either make it smaller or move the root partition. Making the root partition 1 cylinder doesn't help. Since I'm not using the FreeBSD boot loader, this is particularly galling. So, given that I'm not running into the 1024 cylinder problem, what else might be causing my problems? And how do I get around it. Thanx,