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From: Vladislav <reason@shadow.net>
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: [Q] how to boot if root beyond cyl 1024
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 02:43:22 -0500
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Hi,
I have installed FreeBSD in a partion that is beyond cylinder 1024.
If I select 'Install Boot Manager" after fdisk, and then boot from the hard
disk, clicking F4 (my freebsd is on slice 4) does nothing.

If I select Standard MBR, I get an error saying that my root partion is beyond
cylinder 1024.
  So, how does it work??

While installing I did not get an option to create a floppy disk of some sort
that will let me boot from the /dev/wd0s4a.

Is it possible to do at all?

(I have an 20Gb IDE disk, FreeBSD 3.3-release)

Thanks,
Vladislav


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