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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:17:39 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: easyboot far into disk
Message-ID:  <19991104161739.A29367@internal>
In-Reply-To: <199911040836.AAA00488@dingo.cdrom.com>; from mike@smith.net.au on Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:36:21AM -0800
References:  <E11jI8U-000HUf-00@rip.psg.com> <199911040836.AAA00488@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 04-Nov-1999 at 00:36:21 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > on a 13gb win98 system, i wanted a bit of bsd.  so i installed win98 in 10gb
> > and freebsd in the last 3gb, and choose easyboot.  at boot, when i select f2
> > pertition, i get a beep.  is it the >1024 cyl thingie?  wazza fix?  it is
> > already lba.
> 
> "Chose easyboot"?  Here's the best fix:
> 
>  - Boot the install floppy.  When the little spinning widget appears 
>    and stops, hit the spacebar.  At the 'boot:" prompt, type 
> 
>      wd(0,a)/boot/loader
> 
>    This should get the loader off the disk OK, and boot you fine.
> 
>  - Once you're up and running, read the manpage for boot0inst.  You 


Shouldn't that be boot0cfg ?!?

	-Andre


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