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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:02:49 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bad disk label 
Message-ID:  <86224.945687769@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:03:32 CST." <14426.27760.434607.23832@avalon.east> 

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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:03:32 CST, Anthony Kimball wrote:

> This disk is working just fine, but I can't boot from it, as the
> loader won't read the slice 3 file systems.  How can I fix the
> beginning/ending sector coordinates?

As far as I know, this is still a limitation of FreeBSD -- our boot
blocks and/or loader (not sure) don't work for partitions beyond the 1GB
limit.

The usual hackaround is to create a small root partition near the
beginning of the disk for FreeBSD.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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