Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:59:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de> To: jdennis@metronet.com (Jay Dennis) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Install Problem w/FreeBSD 2.0 Message-ID: <199504251959.VAA06948@jette.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504240525.AA22177@metronet.com> from "Jay Dennis" at Apr 24, 95 00:25:41 am
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> When rebooting during the installation process to boot from the HD, the > system halts with the | immediately following the initial boot prompt > (where it gives the kernel boot options). ... > My machine is a 486/66 w/12meg ram and I have allocated 177 meg on my > primary hard drive to load FreeBSD 2.0. ... Does the root partition of your FreeBSD slice extend beyond cylinder 1023 from the BIOS point of view? The bootstrap uses the BIOS to load the kernel, so it has to reside below (BIOS) cylinder 1023. Jörg
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