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From: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net>
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Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:13:26PM +0100, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz. ...
> So I've got something like this:
>
> 10 GBytes for Windows 2000
> 10 GBytes for Linux
> 10 GBytes for FreeBSD-5.2
>
> The big problem is that the FreeBSD boot manager that I've
> got installed on my MBR is only able to boot the Windows partition.

  For what it is worth, I have a new ~120G on modern hardware and I
partitioned it for 10GB XP (main), and then 3x34GB for XP, 4.9 and 5.2.
The bootloader I'm using came out of 4.9 and all the bootable partitions
can be loaded just fine.

  Doesn't really help you solve your problem, but the software is
functioning in some situations with other motherboard variations.