From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 20 00:54:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA01127 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 00:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.NL.net (ns.NL.net [193.78.240.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01118 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 00:54:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spase by ns.NL.net via EUnet id AA07810 (5.65b/CWI-3.3); Mon, 20 May 1996 09:23:49 +0200 Received: from phobos.spase.nl (phobos [192.9.200.238]) by mercurius.spase.nl (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA14319 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 09:19:08 +0200 From: Kees Jan Koster Received: (dutchman@localhost) by phobos.spase.nl (8.6.12/8.6.11) id JAA01835 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 May 1996 09:20:45 +0200 Message-Id: <199605200720.JAA01835@phobos.spase.nl> Subject: Glitch in install procedure. To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers Mailing list) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 09:20:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hoi Hackers, I just installed FreeBSD as a secondary OS on a machine. I dumped it into the upper 300 Mb of a 810 Mb disk. Funny thing is that neither the installation procedure, nor booteasy issued a warning that it would not be possible to actually boot from the partition, as it is beyond the reach of the BIOS. I'm not complaining, it just seems to me that it would be very easy to issue a warning message in this case. It would have saved me the 30 minutes it takes to install FreeBSD ;) Groetjes, Kees Jan ======================================================================v== Kees Jan Koster e-mail: dutchman@spase.nl Van Somerenstraat 50 tel: NL-24-3234708 6521 BS Nijmegen the Netherlands ========================================================================= Who is this general Failure and why is he reading my disk? (anonymous) =========================================================================