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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Booteasy can't find partition?
To: bwern@jax.jaxnet.com (Ben Wern)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 14:04:56 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199508180444.AAA09798@jax.jaxnet.com> from "Ben Wern" at Aug 18, 95 00:40:11 am
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Ben Wern stands accused of saying:
> I'm having a bit of trouble with my installation of 2.0.5. The Install
> seems to have gone ok, but it won't boot correctly. The first partition
> (25M) is DOS, and was used for the install. The second is 900M, and is
> FreeBSD. The third is swap space, about 250M. When the boot manager comes
> up, and I select the second partition, it tells me that the partition is out
> of reach from the bios, and if I attempt to boot anyways, it tells me
> Error: C:0 H:0 S:0.

I haven't seen a reply for this, so I'll just add :

The _entire_ root filesystem must be below the 500M mark for the bootstrap
to be sure it can work.  (If the kernel was over the 500M mark the BIOS
wouldn't be able to read it, and there's no way of guaranteeing that it
always will be.)

> Ben Wern

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