From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 7:36:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (ramstind.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF6337B82A for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03774; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= To: Johan Karlsson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" In-Reply-To: <200003161505.QAA61427@numeri.campus.luth.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Johan Karlsson wrote: > The disk is divided into two partitions > 1st: 8GB NTFS > 2nd: rest FreeBSD This is your problem. Due to BIOS limitations you can only boot off the first 8 GB. Your NTFS partition occupies all space that the BIOS can address during boot. Reduce your NTFS partition, remove your FreeBSD slice and reinstall FreeBSD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@gtf.ol.no Merkantilvegen 59HB7, | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no N-2815 GJØVIK, NORWAY |+47 61139424 || +47 63874242 Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.4 & Pine 4.21 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message