Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:52:36 +0100 From: Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" Message-ID: <200003161652.RAA62158@numeri.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003161632470.3522-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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At Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= wrote: >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. Thanks. I have had succes with Win partitions of size 2-4 GB and could not see any other limit then the 504MB limit in the handbook (which I know does not apply). Where can I find docs on / how can I calculate the 8GB limit? /Johan K > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
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