Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:45:20 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Mitch Vincent <mitch@venux.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot loader Message-ID: <39806720.46520BD1@mitre.org> References: <002c01bff7e7$43f551c0$4100000a@doot>
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Mitch Vincent wrote: > > I've been trying to install a dual boot FreeBSD / Linux system, I haven't > ever had trouble doing that before -- however this time it seems that it > just won't boot. > > I have the FreeBSD boot loader in the MBR, it will boot Linux fine when I > hit F1 but if I try hitting F2 (FreeBSD) it just beeps, nothing more.. > > I've installed and re-installed FreeBSD.. No luck.. > > The system is a Dual Celeron, with a Maxtor ATA/66 30 gig drive, split in > two (that was interesting with Linux -- had to use Gentus to get ATA/66 > support on install).. Still, that shouldn't effect anything, should it? > Is the Linux partiton bigger than about 8.5GB? If so you may need to install FreeBSD 4.1 to get FreeBSD's boot loader to see your FreeBSD partition. What may be happening is your FreeBSD partition starts beyond the 1024th cylinder on the disk, which the old (FreeBSD 4.0 and previous) versions of the boot loader can't handle. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre corperation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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