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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
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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