Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:50:25 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> To: Justin Ko <aka_jasting@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning Limitations Message-ID: <39DD4C01.5FA3D2@smartsoft.cc> References: <F235WO6hm8Ua8d9Ee4z00011583@hotmail.com>
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Depending on how old or how new your machine is you will need to count with the fact that a bootable partition has to start within the first 8 GB of your harddisk. Thus if you have a 13 GB harddisk as decide that you want DOS, NTFS and FreeBSD you can DOS:1 + NTFS:6.5 + FreeBSD:rest You can NOT DOS:1 + NTFS:8 + FreeBSD:rest because in that case the FreeBSD partition starts AFTER the first 8 GB of your disk and your BIOS won't be able to load the loader. On one of my systems I have: DOS:1+FreeBSD:6.5+NTFS:rest... Don't worry, be Kneppie! Jan Justin Ko wrote: > Hey. I'm trying to run a dual boot FreeBSD/Windows98 system off of the same > hard drive. What kind of partitioning limitations will there be? I remember > reaidng about FreeBSD having to be located on a partition within 1024 > cylinders of the head of the drive or something similar. Is that the case? > I've been moving around partitions and reinstalling for about a week now. > I've tried having a FAT32 partition at the front of the drive, with another > for FBSD. They both installed, but when I was booting with the boot manager, > I would press F2 and FreeBSD wouldn't boot. I repartitioned and put the > FreeBSD partition in front. The boot manager still refuses to allow both to > boot within reinstalling one or the other. This problem is driving me crazy. > If anyone could help me out or point me towards the right FAQs, I'd be very > appreciative. > > -Justin > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. http://www.smartsoft.cc/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess Phone : 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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