Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:43:16 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Justin Ko <aka_jasting@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning Limitations Message-ID: <20001005204316.J25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <F235WO6hm8Ua8d9Ee4z00011583@hotmail.com>; from aka_jasting@hotmail.com on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:38:42AM -0600 References: <F235WO6hm8Ua8d9Ee4z00011583@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:38:42AM -0600, Justin Ko wrote: > > > Hey. I'm trying to run a dual boot FreeBSD/Windows98 system off of the same > hard drive. What kind of partitioning limitations will there be? I remember > reaidng about FreeBSD having to be located on a partition within 1024 > cylinders of the head of the drive or something similar. Is that the case? This is a BIOS limitation and has nothing to do with FreeBSD or whatever OS you happen to be using. > I've been moving around partitions and reinstalling for about a week now. > I've tried having a FAT32 partition at the front of the drive, with another > for FBSD. They both installed, but when I was booting with the boot manager, > I would press F2 and FreeBSD wouldn't boot. What'd it say? > I repartitioned and put the > FreeBSD partition in front. The boot manager still refuses to allow both to > boot within reinstalling one or the other. Error message? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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