From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Dec 29 13:18:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3811837B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from westhost42.westhost.net (westhost42.westhost.net [216.71.84.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C6743ED1 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burningclown@burningclown.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (dsl092-099-212.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.99.212]) by westhost42.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBTLIOR29524 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:18:24 -0600 Subject: GRUB and large disks on an older Toshiba laptop From: Glenn Becker To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 29 Dec 2002 16:19:51 -0500 Message-Id: <1041196792.819.59.camel@catbutt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi - About a year ago I went through some gyrations (detailed here) replacing the 2.1G hard drive on a Toshiba 470CDT with a 30g one, then getting FreeBSD set up 'next to' Linux. It's all been working nicely since then. Now I'm trying to set up a 'triple-boot' machine, adding Win98 into the middle - yesterday I read a newish HOWTO on how to do this using GNU GRUB (Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO on TLDP), by effectively 'tricking' the Win partition into thinking it is booting from the first partition of the first disk. (fwiw, all I want to do is run a couple of Win-only applications ... I'd sink some dough into Win4Lin but dough is short). The weird thing that is happening now is that GRUB seems unable to deal with anything above the 'cylinder limit' (it's not specifying but I assume the 1024 cylinder limit). I've been booting things from above there for over a year using LILO. I tried re-installing GRUB forcing lba-support. Same result. It doesn't help that the GRUB installation instructions in the Gnu info document and the ones in the aforementioned HOWTO don't seem to jive ... but so far I've found few hints with Google searches so I wonder if anyone has any advice on this. btw, my FreeBSD partition is (for reasons I can't recall) the one flagged "bootable" in fdisk, even though it's the last (fourth) one on the hd. Thanks in advance, Glenn Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message