Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:06:05 -0400 From: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual Boot on a 20GB HDD? Message-ID: <001101beecc0$9f5b7680$63dc0281@umd.edu> References: <001701beecba$5c22a880$63dc0281@umd.edu> <37C029FC.FC31E5A9@3-cities.com>
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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. If I remember correctly cylinder 1023 is at 512MB. On my previous machine I had FBSD installed in the last GB of an 8.4 GB drive. That worked fine, is there something else that prevents slices from booting past the 8.4GB point? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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