Re: boot failures

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:

>Using PXE boot I can go to multi-user. The filesystem on the compact
>flash hapily mounts as root. That means there is something that bugs 
>I/O donne by /boot but does not happen for kernel I/O. If I understand
>correctly, the former uses BIOS. 

Could it be that BIOS tries C/H/S addressing which is limited to about 8GB ?
Is the root filesystem below that threshold?

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