Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:34:30 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        Jim King <king@sstar.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: easyboot far into disk 
Message-ID:  <199911051534.HAA02236@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:57 PST." <E11jlIP-0008BQ-00@rip.psg.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD.  What I did:  wipe out FreeBSD 
> > partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end 
> > of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the 
> > front of the disk.  Now both FreeBSD and Win98 boot OK.
> 
> hun?!  what about the widely distributed belief that the win9x partition has
> to be the first partition on the disk?

You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any 
primary partition there.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199911051534.HAA02236>