Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 09:39:52 -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: <4.2.0.58.19991105093923.00a65d08@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <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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At 07:28 AM 11/5/1999 -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > >> 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? Widely distributed? That's the first time I've heard that. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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