Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Error: C:1024 > 1023 (BIOS limit) Date: 13 Jul 1996 12:58:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4s86hr$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4s7iec$b09@news.umbc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E pwin1@umbc.edu (Phyo Win) wrote: > I just finished installing FreeBSD 2.1 and I can't boot it up. > > I installed FreeBSD on the second partion (532 M) of second hard drive > (1.08 M). > > Do I need to make my partition smaller than 500 M? No, you don't need to make the FreeBSD slice smaller than any unreasonable number (which is in the Terabyte region, i believe), but you must make sure that the root partition of the FreeBSD slice is accessible by the BIOS. For most IDE drives, this means it must be below the magic 508 MB point. (The actual value depends on the BIOS translation.) -- 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. ;-)