From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 20 15:18:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD1937C1D1 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA30158; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007202218.PAA30158@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: win98 (sorry!) and freebsd, wont boot? In-Reply-To: <39777355.254E5262@gmx.net> from Andreas Ntaflos at "Jul 20, 2000 11:47:02 pm" To: Andreas Ntaflos Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ snip ] > F1 works, booting freebsd works fine. > F2, however, doesnt. pressing F2 just proofs that the speaker and the > loud and annoying work. i cant boot into win98, it wouldnt > work. Windows is beyond the 1024th cylinder. To fix this, boot into BSD, then as root type the following command: # boot0cfg -v -o packet ad0 This will enable support for a BIOS extension that will let you get beyond the 1024 cylinder. In 4.1 all this is automagical, but that command should get you going alright. > regards > Andreas Ntaflos -- John Baldwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message