Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:59 -0600 From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991105072616.00a3b128@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <E11jdBA-0003Vg-00@rip.psg.com> References: <E11jRZw-000N2F-00@rip.psg.com> <199911050450.UAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com>
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At 10:48 PM 11/4/1999 -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> - Boot the install floppy. > >> i presume you mean the kern.flp floppy. > >>> When the little spinning widget appears > >>> and stops, hit the spacebar. At the 'boot:" prompt, type > >>> wd(0,a)/boot/loader > >> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c) > >> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x1388b3c) > >> No /boot/loader > >> should i not be telling it that it's the second slice in some way? > > Nope, you're probably SOL. It looks like your BIOS isn't going to let > > you go past 8GB. > >i did flash a new bios, and it did install up there at 10-13g. it just >won't boot. I had a similar problem, on a newish Dell PC (less than a year old) with a 16 GB drive. I had a 13 GB Win98 partition followed by a 3 GB FreeBSD partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I did: wipe out FreeBSD partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the front of the disk. Now both FreeBSD and Win98 boot OK. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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