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Subject: Re: Booteasy can't find partition?
To: bwern@jax.jaxnet.com (Ben Wern)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:53:57 +0100 (WET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199508180444.AAA09798@jax.jaxnet.com> from "Ben Wern" at Aug 18, 95 00:40:11 am
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> 
> Hello.
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble with my installation of 2.0.5. The Install
> seems to have gone ok, but it won't boot correctly. The first partition
> (25M) is DOS, and was used for the install. The second is 900M, and is
> FreeBSD. The third is swap space, about 250M. When the boot manager comes
> up, and I select the second partition, it tells me that the partition is out
> of reach from the bios, and if I attempt to boot anyways, it tells me
> Error: C:0 H:0 S:0.
> 
> Any thoughts? FDISK and FreeBSD install both saw the disk sizes just fine. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben Wern
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> 
Create a little Root-partition (/) with ~30Mb after the Dos-partition
and use the big partition as the /usr-partition.
Werner