In the past problems could happen if your kernel ended beyond cylinder 1024 on the disk (i386 problem) You should have a disklabel with partitioning for at lea

In the past problems could happen if your kernel ended beyond cylinder 1024 on the disk (i386 problem) You should have a disklabel with partitioning for at least /, /usr, /usr/lib, /var, and /home (with / fully behind cylinder 1024 for i386 Bios to be able to load the kernel via int13h )