From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 11 0:50:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgrd.orion.no (postkontor.orion.no [194.143.1.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280B914C9A for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 00:50:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raymond@orion.no) Received: from postkontor.orion.no (unverified [62.92.20.132]) by mailgrd.orion.no (Integralis SMTPRS 2.04) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:50:52 +0200 Received: from foobar.orion.no by postkontor.orion.no with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id J865MXTR; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:50:19 +0200 X-Mailer: 21.2 "Clio" XEmacs Lucid (beta12) (via feedmail 8 I); VM 6.67 under 21.2 "Clio" XEmacs Lucid (beta12) From: "Raymond Wiker" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <14135.57670.216107.982103@foobar.orion.no> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:50:30 +0200 (CEST) To: Subject: RE: Booting 3.1 In-Reply-To: <000a01be9b75$36443070$69ef6ed1@diz.dizx.com> References: <3737B246.57C81D26@newsguy.com> <000a01be9b75$36443070$69ef6ed1@diz.dizx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Schmitt writes: > Good points, although on the first I can say nothing: after the F1 DOS F2 > ??? F3 BSD prompt (at which I hit F3), the system freezes. Nothing > else. Do you have a large hard disk, with the FreeBSD root partition outside the first 1024 (logical) disk cylinders? If so, then that is quite likely to be the reason. Possible solutions include reformatting the disk using a different logical geometry, or shuffling the disk partitions so that all data necessary for booting are within the first 1024 logical cylinders. //Raymond. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message