From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 11:33:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04830153A8 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a016.otenet.gr [195.167.115.16]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA00394 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:32:07 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 2399 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Nov 1999 12:42:29 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: bootmgr] References: <383B2501.44C76D62@network-alchemy.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 24 Nov 1999 14:42:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Michael J. Ruhl"'s message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:36:33 -0800" Message-ID: <86yabokqmi.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael J. Ruhl" writes: > I just install Win98 and FreeBSD on a 12G disk. I used the first 8G > for windows, and the final 4G for FreeBSD. The bootmgr program > displays F1 for DOS and F3 for FreeBSD. When I press the F3 button, > my PC beeps at me, but when I press the F1 button, I get Windows as > expected. :( Ah well, I only just noticed the numbers. In order to have FreeBSD booting properly, the slice and label that contain the kernel have to be in the first 1024 cylinders. With a large Windoze partition before it, the FreeBSD partition is probaly impossible to boot. [Note: what DOS calls 'partition' in BSd is called 'slice'. A 'partition' is also called a 'disklabel' in BSD.] Since only the root partition needs to be below 1024 cylinders, and that is not really necessary to be a big one, the recommended way of solving this kind of problems is to create a small (say 64MB) BSD slice before your first (and only?) Windows slice. Then the Windows slice, in any size you find suitable, and finally all the BSD slices you want/need. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message