From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 23 11:33:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01125 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01101 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16455(3)>; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:32:23 PDT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177476>; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:32:17 -0700 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Chris Csanady" , freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:58:18 PDT." <6054.843037098@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:32:09 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Sep23.113217pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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