From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 25 14:12:59 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA17515 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:12:59 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA17479 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:12:46 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA17047; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 23:12:33 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA26640; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 23:12:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by jette.heep.sax.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id VAA06948; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:59:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504251959.VAA06948@jette.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Install Problem w/FreeBSD 2.0 To: jdennis@metronet.com (Jay Dennis) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:59:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504240525.AA22177@metronet.com> from "Jay Dennis" at Apr 24, 95 00:25:41 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 519 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > When rebooting during the installation process to boot from the HD, the > system halts with the | immediately following the initial boot prompt > (where it gives the kernel boot options). ... > My machine is a 486/66 w/12meg ram and I have allocated 177 meg on my > primary hard drive to load FreeBSD 2.0. ... Does the root partition of your FreeBSD slice extend beyond cylinder 1023 from the BIOS point of view? The bootstrap uses the BIOS to load the kernel, so it has to reside below (BIOS) cylinder 1023. Jörg