Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:57 -0800 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Jim King <king@sstar.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <E11jlIP-0008BQ-00@rip.psg.com> References: <E11jRZw-000N2F-00@rip.psg.com> <199911050450.UAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com> <4.2.0.58.19991105072616.00a3b128@mail.sstar.com>
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>> 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. hun?! what about the widely distributed belief that the win9x partition has to be the first partition on the disk? randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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