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Date:      Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:06:45 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Radu Malica <rmalica@gmx.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Freebsd on a 15.2 hdd
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991221100645.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <000f01bf4b0a$e83978e0$02010101@radu>

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On 20-Dec-99 Radu Malica wrote:
> hello i tried to install FreeBSD on a ibm djna - 351250 15.2 gb harddisk
> I made the freebsd partition on the first 1024 cylinders because i know some
> bootloaders halt if installed on a partition above 1024. So the freebsd
> bootloader 'sees' the DOS partition (fat32) which is the second partition
> and is above 1024 cylinders but when i want to boot with F2 the windows
> system i just hear a beep and it doesn't boot. I have to se the boot flag on
> the windows partition and if i want to boot freebsd to set the boot flag
> back to the bsd partition. Can you help me ?
> 
> Radu Malica

You could also consider never booting wintendo again...
/M

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