Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:50:48 +0200 From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> To: 'Zaid Dashti' <zaid500@hotmail.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Notebook Message-ID: <D08F9E2FE307D411857300104B34F1A202DB67@URANUS>
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[please keep the cc to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, so that others can see all the messages] > > > There is no error messages, and my HDD is 18 GB. I maked a > partition for > FreeBSD it's 3GB. 270MB swap partition and other for freebsd > partition. but > when i press F3 to boot the FreeBSD it doesn't work only F1 > for Windows. > assuming that you used the last 3GB for FreeBSD, that means that you are over the 1024cyl limit. I think that current version of bootloader cannot boot over the 1024 cylinder (this going to change in 5.0 ?!). This is a common problem for all OSes - a limitation of the BIOS. The solution is to make the root partition under the 1024 limit (in the first 8GB, i think). Stefan PS: you don't have to make a separate partition for swap; see the handbook and/or other docs about how partitions/slices/labels are organized. Or just let the FreeBSD do the default in the installation process - see the "a - Auto default for all" option during disk partitioning. > > >From: Stefan KORONKA <KoronkaS@interscope.ro> > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >CC: 'Zaid Dashti' <zaid500@hotmail.com> > >Subject: RE: Notebook > >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:19:06 +0200 > > > > > > > > >When you installed BSD did you choose to install the boot loader? > > > Yes i installed it, but when i press F3 to boot the FreeBSD > > > it doesn't work. > > > and when i press F1 it's work and it take me to windows > > > >How big is your harddisk ? Where the FreeBSD's partition starts ? > >How may partitions did you make, what type and size ? > >Got any error message ?! > >[add any other useful info here] > > > > > > > > >>Hi,, I have a Laptop it's Solo 9300. and my question is: > > > when i install > > > >>the FreeBSD OS i can't boot it, why ? (Note: There is the > > > word was writing > > > >>on the laptop and the word is. Designed For Microsoft Windows98) > > ______________________________________________________________ > ___________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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