From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 9:43:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F8D37BB6B for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24273 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:43:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03379 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FYD7RW00.651; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:43:08 -0400 Message-ID: <39806720.46520BD1@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:45:20 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot loader References: <002c01bff7e7$43f551c0$4100000a@doot> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mitch Vincent wrote: > > I've been trying to install a dual boot FreeBSD / Linux system, I haven't > ever had trouble doing that before -- however this time it seems that it > just won't boot. > > I have the FreeBSD boot loader in the MBR, it will boot Linux fine when I > hit F1 but if I try hitting F2 (FreeBSD) it just beeps, nothing more.. > > I've installed and re-installed FreeBSD.. No luck.. > > The system is a Dual Celeron, with a Maxtor ATA/66 30 gig drive, split in > two (that was interesting with Linux -- had to use Gentus to get ATA/66 > support on install).. Still, that shouldn't effect anything, should it? > Is the Linux partiton bigger than about 8.5GB? If so you may need to install FreeBSD 4.1 to get FreeBSD's boot loader to see your FreeBSD partition. What may be happening is your FreeBSD partition starts beyond the 1024th cylinder on the disk, which the old (FreeBSD 4.0 and previous) versions of the boot loader can't handle. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre corperation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message