Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:03:51 +0200 (CEST) From: pcasidy@worldnet.fr (Philippe CASIDY) To: "Jain, Pawan" <pawan.jain@eds.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problem Message-ID: <199909070903.LAA02111@greatoak.home> In-Reply-To: <DC56790A7D02D21183500008C728EEB701DCB95A_AUSYM103@ns.sol.net> References: <DC56790A7D02D21183500008C728EEB701DCB95A_AUSYM103@ns.sol.net>
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In article <DC56790A7D02D21183500008C728EEB701DCB95A_AUSYM103@ns.sol.net>, "Jain, Pawan" <pawan.jain@eds.com> writes: > I am installing FreeBSD V2.2. MY installation completes successfully. But > while > rebooting, It gives "Could not mount root" and start rebooting. This goes > on and on. > > I was installing on partition number three of 2GB size (Total disk capacity > 6 GB, the first two > partitions od 2 GB each have windows operating systems). Some one suggested > to reduce the > third partition (FreeBSD partition) to less than 1 GB. I reduced to 950MB > but still the same problem. > > Any suggestion. In fact, you have to put the / partition below the 1024th cylinder of your hard drive. If you have no important informations on your harddrive yet, you can change the geometry (with fdisk under sysinstall) so that you have no more than 1024 cylinders but you will loose all your partitions! Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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