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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Can not boot 2.0.5R
Date: 14 Jun 1995 06:57:46 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3rg4qa$lta@agate.berkeley.edu>, Chun-Yang Chiu <cchiu@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>When I boot, I get the following message:
>
>partition is out of reach from the bios.
>
>By the way, I did not change the geometry of the HD. I used the geometry
>that was detected by the installation program.
I encountered the same problem upgrading all the 2.0-950412
machines. Since I have my /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local filesystems
backed up on another disk, the easiest thing for me to do was reformat
the drives in DOS. After that, the FreeBSD partition editor worked
and I was able to boot. Still don't know why 2.0.5 can't use the
geometry 2.0 was happy with.
The errors I received at boot were either "Missing operating
system" or "Partition is out of reach from bios". I would really
rather not have to resort to DOS to get FreeBSD to work. ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org