Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:30:48 +0100 (MET) From: Stephan Ullmann <steve@lrt.mw.tum.de> To: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems booting kernel from large drive Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002191925100.11492-100000@superfix.lrt.mw.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002191240200.46956-100000@kaon.intercom.com>
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Hi From my experience in Linux and NT the problem ist the following: If your boot partition is bigger than 1024 cylinders (8GB)...or better the place where your kernel is stored is beyond this limit, the bios cannot access anymore the kernel. So before the kernel problably was in this limit and after the make world it moved somewhere else and is not accessible anymore for the bios...bummer. Under Linux one normally creates a small boot partition where everything resides that is needed for booting (~about 10-20MB is enough). I don't know how this can be done with FreeBSD - any comments? Cheers, Stephan On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Jason J. Horton wrote: > I have a -STABLE system with a 27gig IBM EIDE, and when I set up the > system, I only made 2 partitions, / and swapspace. The system has been > working just fine, till I did a "make world" and installed a new kernel. > Now when I boot, I get errors like this: > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel > boot: > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xc21e2f) -- Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Ullmann Tel: +49 89 289-15997 Fachgebiet Raumfahrttechnik Fax: +49 89 289-16004 Fakultät für Maschinenwesen Technische Universität München 85748 Garching Email: steve@lrt.mw.tum.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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