From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 29 17:19:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay3.adelphia.net (smtprelay3.adelphia.net [64.8.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854E937B8DE for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:19:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvlad@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com ([24.48.148.58]) by smtprelay3.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with ESMTP id FS7NLY00.G1T for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:17:58 -0500 Message-ID: <38E265D3.279D4F0A@bigfoot.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:21:39 -0500 From: Vladik X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader References: <87n1njbrfj.fsf@nakaji.tutrp.tut.ac.jp> <20000328150723.A28294@midgard.dhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am not sure if this exactly on topic, but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed beyond cyl 1024 I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub) Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and do the following: root (hd0,3,a) # or whatever your FreeBSD root slice is #after the command above, it mounted the partition kernel /kernel -remount boot When kernel boots to the point where it needs to mount a root partion it will ask you, in there you type ufs:/dev/ad0s4a ---- Vladislav Charles Anderson wrote: > > I have a Thinkpad 600X here that I installed freebsd on the third partition, > but couldn't boot because of the >1024 cylinder bit, so I booted a Fixit > floppy mounted my freebsd partitions, installed this patch, patched boot1 > to always try packet mode and copied it over to the ntfs boot partition and > used it from the NT Loader, and it booted right up, both natively and under > VMware. > > I had to do a lot of mucking around to get things to the point where I could > mount slice 3, the FreeBSD partition, and build the new boot code. > > -Charlie > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:21:36PM +0900, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: > > How can I test this with FreeBSD which is installed over-8GB area and > > can't boot? > > > > I have a PC on which Solaris7 is installed within 8GB from the start > > of disk and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE is installed after(?) it. > > > > The installation was successfull. But I can't boot it. > > > > How can I install this patched /boot/loader in this dead system? > > -- > > NAKAJI Hiroyuki > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > -- > Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com > > No quote, no nothin' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message