Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:32:09 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Chris Csanady" <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Message-ID: <96Sep23.113217pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:58:18 PDT." <6054.843037098@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <6054.843037098@time.cdrom.com> Jordan wrote: >I think you neglected to RTFM during the install and made a root >filesystem which spanned cyl 1024! :-( I think that everyone has too much confidence in this error message not being a bug in the boot code! When I reported this a long time ago, everyone told me that my root partition must span cyl 1024, when it doesn't. Chris even included his disklabel in his original message; his disk has 1002 cylinders, and his root partition is on 654-685... Bill
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