From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 10:29:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22474 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:29:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22465 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00349; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:24:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:24:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gorgonio Araújo cc: FREEBSD-INSTALL@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1023 BIOS limit In-Reply-To: <348D9F2E.3BF12EE3@nexos.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA22467 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Gorgonio Araújo wrote: > My HD is a 6696/15/63 (cyl/hd/sec) Maxtor 83240D4 ATA driver. The "/" > was labeled as offset 0 and size 65536 sectors (so it's bellow cylinder > 70!). During the boot, before load the kernel, the system is complaining > > "Error: C:2079 > 1023 (BIOS limit)". > > I guess that some boot sector was moved to a cylinder over 1023 by > bad144. Is it possible? Or you installed the system so that the root filesystem straddled the limit, and part of the kernel is over the line. > If so what do you suggest to skip this > condition. Is there any other way then to create a slice just to keep > partition /? Make your root FS small enough so it'll fit underneath the 500mb limit (or wherever you're hitting it, you didn't mention how big the disk is in MB). The rest of the system can be wherever. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major