From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 19:44:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06974 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:44:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06967 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA06648; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:14:12 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id OAA48459; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:14:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:14:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Stan Brown Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Error C:1027 > 1023 bios limit Message-ID: <19990130141411.N8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990130134514.L8473@freebie.lemis.com> <199901300339.OAA06625@allegro.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901300339.OAA06625@allegro.lemis.com>; from Stan Brown on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:39:50PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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