From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 14:24:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B77414D04 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA77463; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:17:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:17:30 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Rob Hunter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with dual boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks as though the boot partition for FreeBSD is not under the 1024 cylinder mark, which may be necessary here. See the multios tutorial on www.freebsd.org for more information. You may have to reduce the size of your first (primary) Windows partition to make it work, possibly so that you can get the FreeBSD / file system entirely below 540 megs. So, 480 for the first Windows partition, then FreeBSD with / at about 50 or 55 megs, then rest of FreeBSD, and then the dos extended partition. Annelise On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Rob Hunter wrote: > Hi > > I have a machine running Win98. I've got a 20 gig ide drive in it. I'm > having difficulties getting FreeBSD booted after installing (3.3-RELEASE). > > I'm installing from cdrom. This is what my partitions look like: > > dos fdisk output: > > Partition Status Type Vol label Mbytes System > c: 1 PRI DOS WIN98 4001 FAT32 > 2 A Non-DOS 3561 > 3 EXT DOS 12002 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Logical DOS Drive Information > > Drv Vol Label Mbytes System Usage > d: 12002 FAT32 100% > A > > I manage to finish the installation, and then ask it to install FreeBSD's > default boot manager. After this, I get my 2 options when booting, and am > told to press F3 to boot FreeBSD. I hear an audible beep when pressing > this, and the only key that does anything is F1 (Win98). > > I've tried installing os-bs and end up with the same. I've tried changing > active id tag's too. I've also tried letting it modify the start id > automatically upon booting. > > No matter what, I can't get it to boot my bsd partition :( > > > Any help appreciated > > Regards > > --Rob > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message