From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 29 13:29:47 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA05783 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:29:47 -0800 Received: from mercury.sfsu.edu (mercury.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.162]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA05777 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:29:46 -0800 Received: by mercury.sfsu.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03883; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:29:34 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:29:33 -0800 (PST) From: Timmy Wong To: Mark Tinguely Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Problems In-Reply-To: <199412291944.AA26131@plains.NoDak.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 866 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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..