From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 29 19:54:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B5437BBCB for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p40-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.105]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id LAA02995; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:54:14 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <390BA0B8.2E02A4CB@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:55:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roddie Hasan Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Booting above 8 Gb is not supported, due to BIOS problems. If you don't believe that, trying booting Windows above 8 Gb... :-) Alas, one developer had some interesting ideas on how to solve this problem recently. There is _unsupported_ options to make this work, but we can't activate them by default because not all hardware/firmware is compatible with it. Roddie Hasan wrote: > > Hi all, > > Running 4.0-STABLE (though I had the same issue in 4.0-RELEASE). I've got > a 10 gig IDE Hard drive with two FAT32 paritions taking 2 gig and 6 gig, > and then a 2.4 gig FreeBSD partition. > > / - 100 megs > /var - 100 megs > swap - 268 megs > /usr - 1800 megs > > On bootup, I get the following: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)? > boot: /load /boot/loader > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xfc093c) > No /boot/loader > > The system continues to boot /kernel automatically and runs fine from > there. (I've patched the kernel per kern/17422 to get top, vmstat > etc. working). For the record, /boot/loader *does* exist. > > I've read an explanation about the 1024 cylinder limit, but I used the > exact same configuration with 3.4-STABLE and /boot/loader worked fine. > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > Regards, Roddie > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message