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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:58:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        steve howe <un_x@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: large drive install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970826195744.4255K-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199708261813.LAA16531@f45.hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, steve howe wrote:

> wd0 W95 (0-62=MBR) (63-504M=W95) (plus a few sectors leftover)
> wd1 CD - drive 2 is a CDROM
> wd2 BSD (i allocate ALL the space for FreeBSD - all 3,8G).
> i Set the W95 and BSD partitions as bootable, and
> select and MBR for each. after rebooting, i can't boot F5 (wd2).

What happens?

Your geometry is probably wrong.  Try putting a small DOS partition on
this disk, then install FreeBSD over it (remove it in sysinstall).  Also
make sure you set it to allow for future OS compatibility.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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