From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 20:49:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt0f4nfc.san.rr.com [24.94.22.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FEA14CFC for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@ds9.dreamhaven.org) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by ds9.dreamhaven.org with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 113X3C-0009pU-00; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:46:42 -0700 Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:46:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: Kent Stewart Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Boot troubles In-Reply-To: <37891204.A04A398A@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > According to my rules, it isn't the new drive. You have something else > that is broken otherwise the boot floppies would have worked. I downloaded the 3.1 floppies, and they worked great. For some reason, though, the 3.2 floppies didn't like my system. However, someone already helped me out and solved the problem -- turned out that it *was* the new drive. Specifically, it was the fact that it was larger than 2 gigs, which the BTX loader apparently has problems with. He suggested using a "dangerously dedicated" partition, which I did, and that solved the problem. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message