From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 5 7:41:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sstar.com (sstar.com [209.102.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C22214C8F for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:41:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from JKING ([134.132.78.137]) by sstar.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.5s/64) id 6977600; Fri, 05 Nov 1999 09:39:53 -0600 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991105093923.00a65d08@mail.sstar.com> X-Sender: king@mail.sstar.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 09:39:52 -0600 To: Randy Bush From: Jim King Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Cc: FreeBSD Stable In-Reply-To: References: <199911050450.UAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com> <4.2.0.58.19991105072616.00a3b128@mail.sstar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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