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Subject: System doesn't boot under FreeBSD 3.2
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>Number:         14256
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       System doesn't boot under FreeBSD 3.2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 10 22:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 24 12:24:12 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 24 12:25:17 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Andres Le Roux
>Release:        3.2
>Organization:
Media Alliance
>Environment:
>Description:
I installed FreeBSD in a 4.1 gig partition of a dual pentium III.
This partition is the 4th. of a 15gig IDE HD.
Booting from floppy and installing presented no problem. The machine is running BeOS 4.5.1 on the frist partition, with a multiple system booter called bootman provided by Be. I can see the FreeBSD partition, I can select it, but the message:
"read error" appears.
I've installed FreeBSD 3 times, last changing the MBR to standard instead of none
>How-To-Repeat:
just under same conditions
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>, <alrx@excite.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/14256: System doesn't boot under FreeBSD 3.2
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:58:36 -0800

 The boot loader must access the /kernel using BIOS code.  It's
 likely that your 15GB IDE disk is simply too large.  There are
 several BIOS limitations at 500MB, and 8GB that have been hacked
 around over the years by BIOS manufacturers.
 
 Please obtain a scratch small IDE disk (500MB or so) and temporairly
 disconnect your 15GB disk and plug in the small IDE disk, and attempt
 a FreeBSD installation on it.  If this DOES NOT work then this problem
 needs further investigation, please supply the make, model and year of your
 machine.
 
 If it DOES work then you might be able to get FreeBSD installed if you can
 create a small (50MB or so) partition under the 8GB boundary on your 15GB
 hard disk, install the root filesystem here, then you should be able to
 install the rest of the system elsewhere.  Of course you need a partition
 manager to do this.
 
 Another possibility is installing an arbitrary small disk as your second
 IDE disk, and loading the FreeBSD root and /usr on here, then mount the
 rest of your 15GB IDE disk somewhere.
 
 You might also investigate if there is a BIOS upgrade for your motherboard.
 
 You might also think about investigating the use of large SCSI disks,
 instead of
 large IDE disks.  SCSI disks on good controllers generally don't have this
 kind
 of problem, as the SCSI controllers BIOS understands how to reach any part
 of
 the disk.
 
 Ted
 
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 24 12:24:12 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout, and probable BIOS problem, not FreeBSD problem. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=14256 
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