From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 10:50:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f48.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391D037B6AC for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:50:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:50:26 -0800 Received: from 64.152.166.181 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:50:26 GMT X-Originating-IP: [64.152.166.181] From: "gerald stoller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Invalid partition" message Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:50:26 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jan 2001 18:50:26.0828 (UTC) FILETIME=[04D15CC0:01C083DB] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a Windows 98 system with a large hard-drive (its geometry is 1869 cylinders/255 heads/63 sectors); I am keeping the Windows 98 system on the drive in the first partition/slice (about 3G big) and I have loaded FreeBSD into the next three slices (each at least 1.5G ). I have loaded 4.2 into F2 and 4.1 & 3.3 into the other two slices (with no error messages [that I could see, is there any file for system-load error messages?]). I can load & run 4.2 (from F2 ), whenever I try 4.1 & 3.3 (from F3 & F4 ), I get the message(s) "Invalid partition" and (sometimes also) "No /boot/loader". Previously I have loaded 3.3 into the second & third slices (existent at the same time, and each was about 3G big) and ran it from both. Is there a way that I can put /boot/loader in F3 & F4 , and is it the same code for both ( 3.3 & 4.1 [& 4.2 ], and is there any configuration/customization required (e.g., placing the disk-address of /kernel in the code)? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message