Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 11:04:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Anders Givskov Pedersen <anders@givskov.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't boot on 17.3Gb harddrive! Message-ID: <19991001110438.G496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000701bf0b59$c52cb6a0$6501a8c0@givskov>; from Anders Givskov Pedersen on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:37:52PM %2B0200 References: <000701bf0b59$c52cb6a0$6501a8c0@givskov>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] [following up to -questions] I can't see a bug here. If you have installation problems, please ask FreeBSD-questions. You'll get more response. On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 17:37:52 +0200, Anders Givskov Pedersen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble booting my FreeBSD after upgrading my > harddrive. I've recently installed a 17,3Gb Fujitsu harddrive in my > computer. To be able to boot multiple operating systems, I've used > the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD. Booting Win98 works fine, > but when I try to boot the FreeBSD partition is just stops. My > partitions are configures like this: The previous paragraph was received as a single line, 359 characters long. The other paragraphs were also in a single line. Please limit your lines to about 75 characters. > Partition 1 : FAT32 size 7.06Gb > Partition 2 : FAT32 size 8.12Gb > Partition 3 : FreeBSD size 2.12Gb > > I've tried several thing, and I found out that if I removed my > second partition containing FAT32, and partitioned a FreeBSD slice > like this: > > Partition 1 : FAT32 size 7.06Gb > Partition 2 : FreeBSD size 2.12Gb > Partition 3 : FAT32 size 8.12Gb > > then the FreeBSD slice would boot as normal. Could it be the fact > that the boot manager can't reach partitions that are located above > 8Gb on the harddrive. I would appreciate any kind of feedback on this > issue This is almost certainly a BIOS issue. It has nothing to do with FreeBSD. It's described in the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/install.html#AEN583: Q: Any restrictions on how I divide the disk up? A: Yes. You must make sure that your root partition is below 1024 cylinders so the BIOS can boot the kernel from it. (Note that this is a limitation in the PC's BIOS, not FreeBSD). For a SCSI drive, this will normally imply that the root partition will be in the first 1024MB (or in the first 4096MB if extended translation is turned on - see previous question). For IDE, the corresponding figure is 504MB. This entry is no longer up to date; most modern systems don't have *this* limitation. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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