Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:12:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: richg@beachnet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot off 2nd IDE hard drive Message-ID: <199511080112.SAA18656@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511080028.AAA05139@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 8, 95 00:28:24 am
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> 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. FreeBSD may erroneously report this error on a BAD144 enabled drive if the BAD144 table is after 1024, but non of the blocks in the boot path have in fact been relocated. At least this used to be a problem (is it fixed now?). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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