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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot loader > 1024 cyls ? Date: 22 Oct 1993 11:15:09 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 17 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Oct22071509@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <2a6adu$gin@Notwerk.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: uban@Notwerk.mcs.com's message of 21 Oct 1993 10:38:38 -0500 In article <2a6adu$gin@Notwerk.mcs.com> uban@Notwerk.mcs.com (Thomas Uban) writes: After installing FreeBSD on the second half of my IDE 212Mb HD, all seems ok. Then I recompile the kernel and copy it to /. When I try to boot the new kernel, the loader complains with: Error: C:1042 H:8 S:16 ... <forever> ... The FreeBSD and NetBSD boot blocks cannot read past cylinder 1023. This is an unfortunate side-effect of using the BIOS for bootstrapping. Normally, a way around this is to use the BIOS geometry, which I would normally expect to have at most 1024 cylinders; it sounds like you have a very losing machine, though.