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Subject: Re: Glitch in install procedure.
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:17:40 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605202104.OAA28405@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 20, 96 02:04:34 pm
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Terry Lambert writes:
>
>> I just installed FreeBSD as a secondary OS on a machine. I dumped it into the
>> upper 300 Mb of a 810 Mb disk. Funny thing is that neither the installation
>> procedure, nor booteasy issued a warning that it would not be possible to
>> actually boot from the partition, as it is beyond the reach of the BIOS.
>
> That's because it couldn't ask BIOS to tell it what was good.

No, but it could issue a warning.  Kees didn't ask for it to refuse to
install.

Greg