Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:14:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error C:1027 > 1023 bios limit Message-ID: <19990130141411.N8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901300339.OAA06625@allegro.lemis.com>; from Stan Brown on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:39:50PM -0500 References: <19990130134514.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901300339.OAA06625@allegro.lemis.com>
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On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 22:39:50 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: >> >> You're going to have to repartition the disk. Your machine obviously >> has a 2 GB limit on what the BIOS can access. In the Microsoft world, >> the Microsoft driver takes care of accessing the rest of the disk, but >> that doesn't help you when you want to boot. You'll have to ensure >> that your root partition is completely below the 2 GB limit. If >> you're lucky, you have two Microsoft partitions (primary and >> extended), and you could move the extended partition to the end of the >> disk. > > That was what I thought from reading the FreeBSD book. However it seems > totaly unreasonable that a machine as new as this would suffer from > this limit. As requested in the .sig: When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Yes, it seems totally unreasonable, but that's what the BIOS is saying. > Especially since it _ships_ with a *G disk. In most cases, that doesn't make any difference. The manufacturers expect you to stick with Microsoft, and even 512 kB is enough for that. > Is it possible that I have told FreebSD the wrongthing about disk > geometry? It's possible but unlikely, unless you have reinstalled Microsoft as well. If you had just changed the partition table, you wouldn't be able to boot Microsoft either. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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