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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Glitch in install procedure.
To: dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster)
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 14:04:34 -0700 (MST)
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> I just installed FreeBSD as a secondary OS on a machine. I dumped it into the
> upper 300 Mb of a 810 Mb disk. Funny thing is that neither the installation
> procedure, nor booteasy issued a warning that it would not be possible to
> actually boot from the partition, as it is beyond the reach of the BIOS.

That's because it couldn't ask BIOS to tell it what was good.

Silly FreeBSD, trusted you to know what you were doing.  8-).

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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