From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 12:51:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E307637B400 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 23375A809; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:51:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20869542D; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:51:35 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:51:35 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: Scott Mitchell Cc: Bob Bomar , Subject: Re: Booting off Large Drives In-Reply-To: <20020623104420.D359@fishballoon.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20020624054913.H32630-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Scott Mitchell wrote: > You're not trying to boot from a partition beyond the first 1024 cylinders > of the disk, are you? A lot of older machines had issues with this (see No my root partition was at the very start of the disk and small enough (although the slice probably extended past that mark). I wrote out the partitions again and it all worked so I must have stuffed up last time. Thanks for you help, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message