Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:34:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: Jim King <king@sstar.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <199911051534.HAA02236@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:57 PST." <E11jlIP-0008BQ-00@rip.psg.com>
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> > 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? You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any primary partition there. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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