From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 27 13:47:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C89214CC8 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17269; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37768DEF.6DBF7FCF@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 13:47:43 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Paul D. Schmidt" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD can't boot from second partition References: <19990625102501.B5997@uberhacker.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Paul D. Schmidt" wrote: > > Hello, I installed FreeBSD as the second partition on my laptop, then > installed OSBS Beta as reccomended by several FreeBSD users on IRC. > However, when I select FreeBSD in OSBS, it says No Operating System and won't > let me boot. When I used FreeBSD's boot manager, whenever I pressed F2 it > just hung. Is it because my FreeBSD partition starts above cylinder 1024 > of the hard drive? Yes. > Win98 is 11GB and then FreeBSD comes after that with 2GB > ... Anyone have any suggestions as to how I should set this up? I need both > partitions as one contiguous block if possible, and I know Windows has to be > the first partition on the drive. Why do you need them in one block? In any case, it won't work that way, so you are out of luck. What I've done in the past is: 700M partition for windows system X meg partition for freebsd rest of disk for windows data This works well, and the only disadvantage is that you now have a D: to deal with in windows. I know have enough disks that I just give each OS its own, but if you can't do that then the above will work for you. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message