From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 07:01:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA08104 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 07:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA08099 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 07:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id QAA28589; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:01:17 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (OAA00836); Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:37:32 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199607221437.OAA00836@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: your mail To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zeppelin@Access.Mountain.Net In-Reply-To: from "Joshua Shriver" at Jul 22, 96 00:08:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I believe I have correctly installed FreeBSD 2.1 Jan 1996. > But when I reboot and get the F? prompt it hangs when I select BSD. > > Can you give me any advice? > > Here is the senerio: > > C:\ 401 meg DOS partition > D:\ 1000.4 meg DOS primary partition > 540 meg FreeBSD partition The PC architecture (or BIOS?) has a ``bug'' - it cannot boot anything after about 512M. Your FBSD boot is after that limit, so you cannot boot it. (Or any other Operating System.) If you can do it, swap the two partitions on your D disk, so FBSD's boot will below the limit, and of course, DOS doesn't mind it. -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky