From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 11 8:19:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A2514F8F for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 08:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dizzydev.com) Received: from diz (dynamic13.pm02.san-mateo.best.com [205.149.174.77]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with SMTP id IAA14745 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 08:19:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mike Schmitt" To: Subject: RE: Booting 3.1 Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:17:41 -0700 Message-ID: <000301be9bc1$69c47a30$2fe36ed1@diz.dizx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <14135.57670.216107.982103@foobar.orion.no> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. This may very well be it -- I'll check once I'm on the machine later today. If this is the case, why is a warning not issued when the system is set up? I assume that after doing the fdisk and slice partitioning, enough information is available to tell the user that their disk/slice setup will not allow the system to boot ... Just a thought. :P Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message