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From: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To: "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Dual Boot on a 20GB HDD? 
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:41:56 -0400
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> > System: PIII-600 128MB RAM 20GB HDD on an Asus P3B-F mboard
> > OS's: Win98, FBSD 3.2-R
> >
> > I already have two dos slices that take up the first 15GB of the drive
so I
> > tried installing FBSD at the end of the disk. The installation went fine
but
> > it won't boot into FBSD. When I hit F3 at boot-up to select FBSD I get a
> > console beep and nothing happens. Hitting the F1 key takes it right into
> > windoze w/o any problems.  I've already tried updating the BIOS on the
> > mboard. Is there a limitation in FBSD (or BootMgr) that prevents booting
to
> > a slice at the 15GB point?
>
> This is a BIOS limitation; you can't (easily) boot anything beyond the
> 1024 cylinder limit.

My old machine booted from somewhere in the 14000's. It had a BIOS from
1997. This new machine has a BIOS from 8/17/99. That's why I think this has
something to do with FBSD. I sent a message to Asus just to make sure it's
not a problem with the BIOS.

-Brandon



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