From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 06:59:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA18199 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 06:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA18192 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 06:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA23275; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:58:56 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611151458.IAA23275@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: can't boot up To: syam@futon.sfsu.edu (Sann Yam) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:58:56 -0600 (CST) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9611150728.AA12756@futon.sfsu.edu> from Sann Yam at "Nov 14, 96 11:28:40 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Sann Yam said: > > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Sann Yam wrote: > > > > Hi Doug, > yeah, I tried that wd(1,a)/kernel and still get the same rebooting > message, I forget to mention that I installed on my second drive on D:\ > and my c:\ is DOS. I partitioned my D:\ for freeBSD, it also has DOS > in there too. As a guess. Is your FreeBSD slice at the beginning or end of the disk? The root partition *HAS* to be in the first ~500meg, due to PC bios limitations. > And another thing is, that I have a 1.6 Gig space on my D:\ and when I do > the partitioning , it only shows that I have 1551MB, I think this is the max > DOS can handle and FreeBSD read that info from DOS so it gets the same size, > do you know if I can configure it to a higher size so it will see that > I have a 1.6 Gig instead of a 1551MB. In DOS, I actually used the LBA(someeting like that in the BIOS) and it can actually use up to 1.6 gig. This sounds like either, the difference between raw and formated drive sizes, or wrong geometry. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030