Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:29:33 -0800 (PST) From: Timmy Wong <timmy@mercury.sfsu.edu> To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Problems Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.941229132757.3625B-100000@mercury> In-Reply-To: <199412291944.AA26131@plains.NoDak.edu>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 1994, Mark Tinguely wrote: > with LBA turned on, only the first partition is bootable. you have > to turn off the LBA (and this translates the IDE differently -- I > think they usually double the head and half the cylinders to fool DOS) > > I found now that you are using the real drive geometry you have to re-intall > DOS and FreeBSD. > > It has been about 6 months since I last played with this, but I couldn't > get any OS in any partition other than the first partition with LBA turned > on. > > --mark. > Hmmm, all I did was turned LBA off and it still worked fine for the DOS but for FreeBSD, when I fdisk, do I need to make the partition bootable since I am using both DOS and FreeBSD and also, I tried replacing the Boot manager with OSBS and somehow it won't boot, do I need to enable the bootable flag to use OSBS? Thanks..
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