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From: Steve Price <sprice@HiWAAY.net>
Subject: Re: docs/4381: mount -t msdos causes panic:vm_fault
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The following reply was made to PR docs/4381; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steve Price <sprice@HiWAAY.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: docs/4381: mount -t msdos causes panic:vm_fault
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 22:01:38 -0600

 [remainder of PR elided]
 
 >Fix
 >
 >      Is this something to do with EIDE bugs?
 >      Should I perhaps start over with a clean drive, and make sure
 >      FreeBSD starts in the first 512 MB?
 
 No this is not an EIDE bug.  It is a limitation with the PC
 BIOS that restricts bootable partitions to the first 1024
 cylinders.  See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ34.html#34
 
 Steve