Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:52:21 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Mitch Vincent <mitch@venux.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot loader Message-ID: <200007271652.JAA77373@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <002c01bff7e7$43f551c0$4100000a@doot> from Mitch Vincent at "Jul 27, 2000 12:25:23 pm"
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Mitch Vincent wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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? > > Does anyone have any ideas? Your FreeBSD partition is beyond the 1024 cylinder. One solution is to install 4.1 (released yesterday), which can automagically boot beyond the 1023rd cylinder. > Thanks!!! > > -Mitch -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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