From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 8:49:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (numeri.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B809837BBF1 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numeri.campus.luth.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA62158; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:52:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Message-Id: <200003161652.RAA62158@numeri.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:52:36 +0100 From: Johan Karlsson Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 +0100, =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=3DF8l?= =3D 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 an= y = other limit then the 504MB limit in the handbook (which I know does not a= pply). Where can I find docs on / how can I calculate the 8GB limit? /Johan K > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Trond Endrest=F8l | trond@gtf.ol.no= >Merkantilvegen 59HB7, | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no >N-2815 GJ=D8VIK, 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