From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 5 7:43:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles502.castles.com [208.214.165.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B56414C8F for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:43:28 -0800 (PST) (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 HAA02236; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911051534.HAA02236@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Randy Bush Cc: Jim King , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:57 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:34:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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