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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!news.kpc.com!amd!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: Problems while installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <almCGCo69.3Kt@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2bt2nr$1b8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 23:06:08 GMT Lines: 14 In article <2bt2nr$1b8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) writes: >filesystem-floppy. The first thing that was obscure was the question if it's >really a SCSI drive. After this, the geometry of the disk was totally Probably it couldn't read your disk. You can use at most 16MB RAM with a 1542B controller. This is the problem you are seeing. >different from the DISK-BIOS. It says that the disk only has 1024 cylinders >and 64 heads etc. Also it said that there might be problems having DOS AND >FreeBSD on a disk which has more than 1024 cylinders. Ok, after this the The root partition of FreeBSD must end before the 1024 cylinder - all other (FreeBSD) partitions can occur after that. -AM