Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 16:30:49 -0200 (EDT) From: Gorgonio Araujo <gorgonio@nexos.com.br> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FREEBSD-INSTALL@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1023 BIOS limit Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971216162218.3631C-100000@touche.nexos.com.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215102323.292E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Gorgonio Araújo wrote: > > > My HD is a 6696/15/63 (cyl/hd/sec) Maxtor 83240D4 ATA driver. The "/" > > was labeled as offset 0 and size 65536 sectors (so it's bellow cylinder > > 70!). During the boot, before load the kernel, the system is complaining > > > > "Error: C:2079 > 1023 (BIOS limit)". > > > > I guess that some boot sector was moved to a cylinder over 1023 by > > bad144. Is it possible? > > Or you installed the system so that the root filesystem straddled the > limit, and part of the kernel is over the line. No. The root file system was just with 32M, so bellow cylinder 70. > > > If so what do you suggest to skip this > > condition. Is there any other way then to create a slice just to keep > > partition /? > > Make your root FS small enough so it'll fit underneath the 500mb limit (or > wherever you're hitting it, you didn't mention how big the disk is in MB). > The rest of the system can be wherever. The disc is a 3089MB HD (6696*15*63*512). After my last message I descovered that in the machine's setup there is a option to configure a disc as a DOS or a non-DOS one. I'd put as a non-DOS and that's why I couldn't boot with FreeBSD. Setting as a DOS disc it works whell. I have no idea what a non-DOS disc means. Thanks for your help, -- Gorgonio Araújo Nexos - http://www.nexos.com.br tel/fax: +55 71 240-7232 --
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