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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:36:16 +0100 (CET)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
To:        Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "No /boot/loader"  or "Invalid format"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003161632470.3522-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
In-Reply-To: <200003161505.QAA61427@numeri.campus.luth.se>

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Johan Karlsson wrote:

> The disk is divided into two partitions
> 1st: 8GB NTFS
> 2nd: rest FreeBSD
This is your problem.

Due to BIOS limitations you can only boot off the first 8 GB. Your
NTFS partition occupies all space that the BIOS can address during
boot. Reduce your NTFS partition, remove your FreeBSD slice and
reinstall FreeBSD.

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