Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:51:20 -0500 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre) Cc: lmsilva@nevado.cui.edu.co (LMSM), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem installing from MS-DOS partition Message-ID: <Mutt.19970115105120.rhh@elmer.ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970115010649.29036C-100000@echonyc.com>; from Snob Art Genre on Jan 15, 1997 01:09:03 -0500 References: <32DB0A6C.1821@nevado.cui.edu.co> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970115010649.29036C-100000@echonyc.com>
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Snob Art Genre: |On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, LMSM wrote: | |> I used FIPS to split a 1gb partition, so it's now 711mb for DOS and 250mb |> for FreeBSD. I made a C:\FREEBSD\BIN and a C:\FREEBSD\DOC in my DOS | |You've got a problem here already. FreeBSD's root partition needs to |reside within the first 1024 cylinders (approximately 500 megabytes) on |the disk in order to be bootable. This is a limitation of PC BIOSes. ...or you need to be running BIOS LBA on the drive. That'll work too, with no 1024 physical cylinder/500 meg limitation. Randall Hopper
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