From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 1 12:25:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31CE15409 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00514; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:19:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903012019.MAA00514@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: eT Cc: Hackers FreeBSD Subject: Re: config -g KERNEL In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:02:33 +0100." <36DA81D8.A2D7CC57@iname.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:19:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > greets... > > i am doing some kernel debugging and tracing and have suddently received a > message when the kernel boots about there being too many symbols and that > there is some kindof BIOS limit? > > C:2048>1023 (bios limit) Parts of the root filesystem (and hence the kernel) extend beyond the 1024 cylinder mark, and cannot be read using the BIOS. Your disk layout sucks, and you need to shrink/move your root filesystem. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message