From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 1: 6:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455FD1502D for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 01:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA01011; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:06:47 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000f01bf4b0a$e83978e0$02010101@radu> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:06:45 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Radu Malica Subject: RE: Freebsd on a 15.2 hdd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message