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From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: U9419829@queens-belfast.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: installation problems with bsd 2.1.0
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Paul, I remember reading somewhere (perhaps on this list a few times) that
you can't boot to FreeBSD from a partition that is beyond 500Mb. I would
make your DOS partition 10Mb, then you won't have this problem...

(personally, I think this limitation is DOS's fault.)

Ken Marsh


On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 U9419829@queens-belfast.ac.uk wrote:

> I am trying to install freebsd 2.1 from dos partition
> since bsd cannot recognise my eide 8x aztech cdrom. I
> have set the following partitions on my adaptec 4.3 Gb
> scsi2 hard disks (controller aha-2940 Ultra wide)....
>
> 1 Gb dos partition
> 2 Gb bsd partition (will be mounted on /)
> 1 Gb bsd partition (will be mounted on /usr)
> remainder as swap file
>
> However, I keep getting the error message whn writing
> partition information to drive sd0
> " sysinstall: read: input/output error
> panic: Going nowhere without my init! "
> (the system then reboots)
>
> The disk geometry has been set correctly and the kernel
> recognizes both the scsi host adapter and the hard disk.
>
> I cant seem to find what the problem is.
> Please help if you have any ideas as to the cause. It
> will be very much appreciated.
>
> Paul Woods
> .
>