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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: large drive install
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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.

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