Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:50:34 -0400 From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot loader Message-ID: <005101bff7ea$c8a6dd50$4100000a@doot> References: <002c01bff7e7$43f551c0$4100000a@doot> <39806720.46520BD1@mitre.org>
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That could very well be happening.. I'll try to FTP install 4.1 Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! -Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:45 PM Subject: Re: Boot loader > 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
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