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Date:      Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:41:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Wingate <s.wingate@pobox.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        Steve Wingate <s.wingate@pobox.com>
Subject:   Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20031101194019.T590@daemon.g-e-e-k.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031101161947.M70057@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20031101131821.U253@daemon.g-e-e-k.net> <20031101161947.M70057@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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> "Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :)
>
> If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to
> reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong.  Try zeroing
> off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put
> FreeBSD on it.

I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is
really ready.


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|Steve Wingate		<s_dot_wingate@pobox.com>
|MCSE, CCNA		Sat Nov  1 19:40:00 PST 2003
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|FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
| 7:40PM  up 2 days, 11:47, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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