From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 13:57:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DAA11996 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA27853; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:02:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902240302.WAA27853@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: A multi-OS Installation of FreeBSD 2.2.8 In-Reply-To: from zhihuizhang at "Feb 23, 99 04:01:02 pm" To: bf20761@binghamton.edu (zhihuizhang) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:02:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] 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 zhihuizhang wrote, > > I have posted similar messages some time ago and I have not figured out my > problem since then. My machine already has Windows-NT, DOS, Linux > installed on it. I tried to install FreeBSD at the last primary partition > which is 1.4Gig. Everthing went soomthly except when I reboot the machine > and let system commander to choose the partion labeled as BSD to boot > from, I got the "read error" message and the system hangs. > > My question is: (1) Does the order of installation affect the co-existence > of these OSs? (2) Do we have to put FreeBSD at the front of the disk? The > machine has Award V4.51 PG modular BIOS. I am using PM 3.02. When I > installed FreeBSD, I choose "leave the MBR intact". Might be a 1024 cylinder issue. See, http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html Have a close look at part 5. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message