Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:49:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Boot on a 20GB HDD? Message-ID: <37C029FC.FC31E5A9@3-cities.com> References: <001701beecba$5c22a880$63dc0281@umd.edu>
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Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > System: PIII-600 128MB RAM 20GB HDD on an Asus P3B-F mboard > OS's: Win98, FBSD 3.2-R > > I already have two dos slices that take up the first 15GB of the drive so I > tried installing FBSD at the end of the disk. The installation went fine but > it won't boot into FBSD. When I hit F3 at boot-up to select FBSD I get a > console beep and nothing happens. Hitting the F1 key takes it right into > windoze w/o any problems. I've already tried updating the BIOS on the > mboard. Is there a limitation in FBSD (or BootMgr) that prevents booting to > a slice at the 15GB point? The boot or any part of that section the system can't be located after cylinder 1023 as setup by LBA. A lot of people have a small / system and everything else comes later. I don't have any multi-boot systems but I keep thinking of converting my Micron Millennia to one. It too slow for new versions of Windows but it would run command line stuff of FreeBSD just fine. Kent > > Thanks, > Brandon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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