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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
> 
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