From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 17:17:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA11554 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:17:57 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11548 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:17:56 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA28765 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:17:24 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA18656; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:12:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511080112.SAA18656@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Can't boot off 2nd IDE hard drive To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:12:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: richg@beachnet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511080028.AAA05139@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 8, 95 00:28:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 890 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. 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.