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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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