From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 10:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E2945B3 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:19:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1148.bossig.com [208.26.241.148]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:28:21 -0800 Message-ID: <38A8473E.F57D80C3@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:19:42 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: *-Dum0ne-* ffffffffffffffffffff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HD Partitioning (was Hello ) References: <20000214102529.9338.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG *-Dum0ne-* ffffffffffffffffffff wrote: > > Hi > Thanks for a really good unix variant. > I had a 2.5 gb hdd before with fBSD 2.2.8 and windows 98 > and it worked fine. > But now i have a 20.5 GB IBM dekstar hdd and freebsd 3.4 and windows98 > and my fBSD will not boot... i have tried two bootmanagers that worked fine > at my old computer. > Isent fBSD 3.4 compitable with 20 GB > disks ? =). > I have checked the disk geometry and its correct. You have probably violated the 1023 cylinder rule on the FreeBSD / partition. My personal preference when I have multiple systems is to boot from a 2GB FAT16 filesystem and divide the disk up appropriately from there on. Kent > > keep up the good work! > // dumone > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message