Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader

2000-04-30 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Roddie Hasan wrote: > > > Booting above 8 Gb is not supported, due to BIOS problems. If you don't > > believe that, trying booting Windows above 8 Gb... :-) > > Understood - But why would it have worked with 3.4 and the *exact* same > configuration? (When I upgraded, I deleted the partition dur

Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader

2000-04-29 Thread Roddie Hasan
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the quick reply.. > Booting above 8 Gb is not supported, due to BIOS problems. If you don't > believe that, trying booting Windows above 8 Gb... :-) Understood - But why would it have worked with 3.4 and the *exact* same configuration? (When I upgraded, I deleted the par

Re: Disk error and No /boot/loader

2000-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Booting above 8 Gb is not supported, due to BIOS problems. If you don't believe that, trying booting Windows above 8 Gb... :-) Alas, one developer had some interesting ideas on how to solve this problem recently. There is _unsupported_ options to make this work, but we can't activate them by defa

Disk error and No /boot/loader

2000-04-29 Thread Roddie Hasan
Hi all, Running 4.0-STABLE (though I had the same issue in 4.0-RELEASE). I've got a 10 gig IDE Hard drive with two FAT32 paritions taking 2 gig and 6 gig, and then a 2.4 gig FreeBSD partition. /- 100 megs /var - 100 megs swap - 268 megs /usr - 1800 megs On bootup, I get the following: >>