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#! rnews 2310 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.th-zwickau.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: URGENT! Help with FreeBSD 2.0.5 install/post install Date: 14 Oct 1995 12:11:09 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <45o5sd$8gk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45hf9a$lmg@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 'Fro Boy <dbackeri@vt.edu> wrote: >My first problems arose because I need to run OS/2, DOS/Windows 3.11, and >FreeBSD on this machine. I have to reserve the first meg for DOS because >%#$%#ing DOS won't recognize more than a Gig. Actually, it must reside < cylinder # 1024 from a BIOS point of view. For the standard Adaptec translation of 32 * 64 sectors per "cylinder", this restricts it to one Gigabyte, yes. >... I reinstalled because I need >to run it for school I did everything right, but now when I get the >boot: prompt, it says that the partition is out of reach of the BIOS and >it can't find /kernel. anyone having help reply to this message and send >email to >'froboy@vt.edu This is exactly the same problem. Since FreeBSD uses the BIOS services to load the /kernel image, the FreeBSD root partition (not the entire "slice" aka. "fdisk partition") where the /kernel file resides is also restricted to < cylinder 1024. (I think OS/2 is much in the same boat). Something like the following would work: cylinder what 0 <other systems> ... <other systems> 969 <other systems> relative MB 970 FreeBSD "slice" 0..<20 partition `a', mount point / 20..<60 partition `b', swap space 60..<1.02 GB partition `e', /usr This would restrict the FreeBSD `root' (``/'') partition to < 970 + 20 cylinders, and leave you 970 MB for the other operating systems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)