From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 14: 8:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charon.khoral.com (charon.khoral.com [209.75.155.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14B6437C71D for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@khoral.com) Received: from zen.alb.khoral.com by charon.khoral.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 13 Jul 2000 21:08:46 UT Received: from benson (benson.alb.khoral.com [10.1.2.11]) by zen.alb.khoral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25547; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:08:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen Message-Id: <200007132108.PAA01812@benson> Subject: Re: Multi-boot problem.. To: so@server.i-clue.de Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:08:24 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <396E1A53.A3427BDB@i-clue.de> from "Christoph Sold" at Jul 13, 2000 09:36:51 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christoph Sold wrote >> Steve Jorgensen wrote: >> > I installed FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE as of July 11, on >> > my new Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop, and I'm having >> > trouble getting the multiboot menu working. I've >> > tried both the standard FreeBSD boot menu and >> > the OS-BS boot menu. OS-BS reports "missing operating >> > system" when I try to boot it, and the FreeBSD one just >> > beeps at me (no error message at all) >> > >> > My disk is sliced as follows: >> > >> > 11GB windows slice >> > 17GB FreeBSD slice with following partitions >> > - 64meg / >> > - 512meg swap >> > - 4 meg /usr >> > - 4 meg /data >> > >> > I am able to boot by booting from my 4.0 CD, then >> > switching the currdev to my harddisk before >> > letting it boot the kernel. However, this is >> > really annoying. Did I mess something up when >> > I installed FreeBSD? Did I miss a config line >> > in one of the conf files in /boot? >> > >> > Any help is appreciated. >> >> AFAIR most BIOSes won't boot anything beyond the very first GB of you >> hard drive. Multi-Boot is a pain, but the cause is brain-dead BIOS >> conventions. I didn't realize that, on my other machine I always split it up between multiple disks.. :( So if what you're saying is true, could I create a / partition first on the disk, followed by the windows partition, and then the rest of the FreeBSD partitions? I hesitate to do that unless someone knows it's going to work, as I have just about got the thing set up the way I like under FreeBSD.. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message