From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 15:56:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22240 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 15:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infowest.com (infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22235 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 15:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from none (taco.st-george.ut.us [204.17.177.84]) by infowest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA28433 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 16:56:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970523165634.00842590@infowest.com> X-Sender: agifford@infowest.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 16:56:34 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Aaron D. Gifford" Subject: How can I boot from partition #3 on a 4Gig HD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Is there any way to boot FreeBSD when it is installed on the third of 4 1 Gig partitions on my SCSI HD? Is there any solution yet? I've Win95 and WinNT on the first 2, FreeBSD 2.2.1 on the 3rd (but can't boot), and Linux on the 4th. I installed BootEasy, but it is useless. I have to do a floppy boot for Linux. Will I be reduced to the same for FreeBSD? Someone once explained the technical reasons why it was difficult or impossible (at that time) to boot from such a partition, but I still haven't been able to find it in the archives. The search tool either returns too many matches to be of any use or not enough. (I wish it a "phrase search" feature, as well as "before" and "after" versions of the AND boolean.) Thanks! Aaron out.