From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 23:06:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18447 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18373 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:06:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA11383; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:06:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: kyrra@mediaone.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-Booting In-Reply-To: <34E8B30B.B9CB645B@mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 kyrra@mediaone.net wrote: > I have been having problems installing FreeBSD. I beleive when I am > setting up the drive config I screw something up. Here is a list of > drives and thier configurations: > > C:\ is a 7 gig maxtor drive running fat32. In the FreeBSD setup, it > says that there are 3 partitions on the drive: a small one... 65 bytes > or so. Then there the main partition.. wd0p1 I believe. There there is > a third partition which is like 6 or 7 k or so. > > D:\ is a 1.6 gig maxtor drive running fat32. This drive to my guess > should have no involvment in the drive setup. It has 2 partions, > another 65 byte one and the main one. > > E:\ is a 725 meg quantum drive that is completely empty, there is > another 65 byte partition and then the rest I have setup for freebsd. The BIOS can only boot the first two disks in the system. Swap drive D for drive E then try it -- it should work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message