From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 16 14:20:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (196-7-192-123.iafrica.com [196.7.192.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC4F14C0F for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 14:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id XAA03812; Sun, 16 May 1999 23:19:11 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199905162119.XAA03812@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: disk error In-Reply-To: from Alberto de Poo Bas at "May 16, 1999 11:40:41 am" To: adepoo@tamnet.com.mx (Alberto de Poo Bas) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 23:19:10 +0200 (SAST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have the following error at boot up > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x299cd0) > No /boot/loader > > If I reformat to use ALL the disk for FreeBSD (no 62 sectors at front) > then this error don't show. > > I need to have one FreeBSD partition and one DOS partition in this disk. > > The same error show with a couple of other disks, all of them Seagate > Medallist IDE (one is 8GB and the other 2 4GB) A disk error 0x1 indicates that at attempt was made to read above disk cylinder 1023 using the BIOS. You must ensure that your FreeBSD / filesystem is completely within the cylinder 1023 limit that the BIOS imposes, if you want to boot from your hard drive. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message