From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 13:37:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ssc.wisc.edu (ssc.wisc.edu [144.92.190.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E7515C7A for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu) Received: from copland.ssc.wisc.edu (copland.ssc.wisc.edu [144.92.190.86]) by ssc.wisc.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02361 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:37:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dbongert@localhost) by copland.ssc.wisc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA25904 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:37:09 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:37:08 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Social Sciences Computing Co-op From: Dan Bongert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3.2/3.3 Installation problems Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an eMachines 366id (366 Celeron + DVD drive) that I've been running RedHat Linux + Win98 on for the past few months (sharing the 4 Gb HD). I bought a 13 Gb hard drive for my Windows games, and was going to trash the Linux install (to repartition and fill the 4Gb of the HD), and thought why not give FreeBSD a try (I had used NetBSD on a Sun 3 a year or so ago). I downloaded the tree to my C: drive (plenty of room + cable modem) ,finished the install fine, and installed the FreeBSD boot loader, but can't boot off the BSD partition. I'm at work now, and can't remember exactly what it said, but it seemed that the boot loader thought that the second HD wasn't bootable. Can I do this setup? Primary Master: new 13 Gb HD Primary Slave: empty--screwy case layout won't let me put the 4Gb as slave Secondary Master: CD-ROM Secondary Slave: 4Gb FreeBSD partition I read that boot loaders (specifically LILO) sometimes have a problem with big disks, and secondary IDE stuff. Any ideas? -- Dan Bongert dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu SSCC Unix System Administrator (608) 262-9857 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message