From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 4: 0:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (relay.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.224.33]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9138F4456 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:00:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (astro.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.229.130]) by relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA10930 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:00:39 +0300 (MSK) Received: by astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.3/Clnt-2.14-AS-eef) id PAA88820; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:01:14 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:01:14 +0300 (MSK) From: Alexey Koptsevich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: hang-up on bootmanager prompt Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ladies and Gentlemen, I have installed FreeBSD on disk of 1629 Mb. I have set drive geometry the same as detected by BIOS. I have DOS on the 1st slice, but cannot boot anything now. The fdisk (run from sysinstall from installation diskettes) says: Disk geometry: 3309/16/63 Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 834561 834623 wd0s1 2 fat 6 = 834624 370944 1205567 wd0s2 4 extended 5 => 1205568 2129904 3335471 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C=> The boot prompt: F1 DOS F3 FreeBSD Pressing F1 leads to the beep. Pressing F1 leads to hand-up. One of the FAQs: Q: Any restrictions on how I divide the disk up? A: Yes. You must make sure that your root partition is below 1024 cylinders so the BIOS can boot the kernel from it. (Note that this is a limitation in the PC's BIOS, not FreeBSD). As I understand my situation is the exact case. But Linux was installed on this slice earlier, and the system was able to boot! So, I do not quite understand, why these limitations are of the BIOS, but not of FreeBSD? Can I make it work without moving of the existing wd0s2 partition? Thank you, Alexey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message