From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 3: 7:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Bespin.worldnet.net (bespin.worldnet.net [195.3.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2922E15B08 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcasidy@worldnet.fr) Received: from greatoak.home (p14-050.province.worldnet.fr [195.3.14.50]) by Bespin.worldnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13317; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:02:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02111; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:03:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:03:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199909070903.LAA02111@greatoak.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 References: In-Reply-To: From: pcasidy@worldnet.fr (Philippe CASIDY) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problem X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: "Jain, Pawan" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , "Jain, Pawan" 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