From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 22 10:45:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles516.castles.com [208.214.165.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545F014F82 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06961; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908221738.KAA06961@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Brandon Fosdick" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Boot on a 20GB HDD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:21:14 EDT." <001701beecba$5c22a880$63dc0281@umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:38:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > System: PIII-600 128MB RAM 20GB HDD on an Asus P3B-F mboard > OS's: Win98, FBSD 3.2-R > > I already have two dos slices that take up the first 15GB of the drive so I > tried installing FBSD at the end of the disk. The installation went fine but > it won't boot into FBSD. When I hit F3 at boot-up to select FBSD I get a > console beep and nothing happens. Hitting the F1 key takes it right into > windoze w/o any problems. I've already tried updating the BIOS on the > mboard. Is there a limitation in FBSD (or BootMgr) that prevents booting to > a slice at the 15GB point? This is a BIOS limitation; you can't (easily) boot anything beyond the 1024 cylinder limit. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message