From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 16:33:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA10493 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:33:56 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA10488 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:33:53 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA05139; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 00:28:24 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511080028.AAA05139@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Can't boot off 2nd IDE hard drive To: richg@beachnet.com (Richard W. Gross) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 00:28:24 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard W. Gross" at Nov 7, 95 08:47:09 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 948 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Richard W. Gross stands accused of saying: > > Hi, I'm a freebsd newbie, and can't seem to get 2.0.5-RELEASE > to boot off my second ide hard drive. > > Boot: > partition is out of reach from the bios Part or all of the root partition is beyond the 1024 cylinder mark, and the BIOS can't load your kernel. You'll have to reinstall, and make sure that the root partition is entirely below 1024 cylinders (about 520M). This is a BIOS restriction, there's nothing that FreeBSD can do about it. > Richard W. Gross | voice 310-823-3308 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[