From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 26 7:20:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE97E37B438 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3QEK3e24134; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204261420.g3QEK3e24134@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: i386/37451: top, vmstat and systat refuse to work. Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/37451; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dan Naumov Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/37451: top, vmstat and systat refuse to work. Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:19:03 +0300 On 2002-04-26 02:50, Dan Naumov wrote: > Problem solved, this is how I did it: > ... > I heard on some mailing lists that people were having > similar problems as I did, and apparently the problem > went away when they re-partitioned and made their / > less then 2 GB. > ... > However, I really think that this weird limitation of > /boot/loader should be documented somewhere, > preferably the Handbook. This is not a limitation of /boot/loader but a limitation of certain PC hardware combinations (the BIOS can't boot sectors above 2 GB). You're right it ought to be documented (if it isn't already). - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message