Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 19:13:48 -0400 From: John Garrison <jeg@visi.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: repost boot problem question Message-ID: <31D072AC.B82B7285@visi.net>
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I first sent this before I was a member of the list so I don't know if it went through. If it did then I am sorry for repeating. I just installed FreeBSD on the last 3 gig of my 12 gig hard drive. (It came partitioned that way from the factory) I would like to boot it but pressing F2 just beeps. I have read the faq and they say that I have to toggle a field in my bios about "> 1gb support" but my bios (compaq presario 5245) does not have such a flag. the only flags are: Enhanced IDE Ultra 33 Primary IDE controller Secondary IDE controller Is there anyway at all to boot this from my system without repartitioning the hard drive. Windows is to stupid to boot from any partition but the first, so if I put FreeBSD where it would have to be Windows would only have like 500 meg. My main reason for wanting to keep windows right now is a couple of games I want to keep playing and about 200 meg of website that I don't want to have to back up to reinstall on my FreeBSD system. I am a linux user, that blasted Windows off of my old computer and haven't regretted it. I may get tired of these games and go ahead and back up the website somewhere (its's to be served right of my computer) then put FreeBSD on the whole drive. Maybe WINE will run the games and I can do this sooner. Anyhow If I can't boot from the hard drive can I get a boot disk somewhere that will allow me to use the FreeBSD on my computer. I got picoBSD but that doens't allow me access to my hard drive. All the boot disk instruction assume you already have access to your system which I don't (I am dying to run gnome on a 400mhz instead of a 90 mhz) I have the installation boot disks but that just goes to the install program and I can't get to my hard drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated, windows has crashed on me one time to many! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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