Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:44:43 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'David Friedman' <dhf@softhome.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: F2 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CF6@site2s1>
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It's not something you can reset. It's the physical location of the partition on the harddrive. You would need to re-partition the harddrive. The best thing to do is to re-partition your drive so that any OS's you have installed have bootable partitions withing the 1st 1024 cylinders. E.g. lets assume you have windows and FreeBSD. Make a reasonable sized DOS primary partition, make a FreeBSD partition that's large enough to hold your root partition (40MB or so). The rest of the drive you can divy up however you like, extended dos partitions, an additional freebsd partition for swap and /usr/ and any other mount points. Hope this helps. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: David Friedman [SMTP:dhf@softhome.net] > Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 3:23 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Subject: Re: F2 > > Never mind, you were right about the cylinder thing, how to lower it? I > tried to > reset it but it just went back to normal. > > Christopher Michaels wrote: > > > Well, exactly how is the HD layed out as far as partitions go? > > > > Also, can you boot off of a freebsd floppy? Use one of the install > > floppies, when when you get the little line, press the space bar and > have it > > boot off the drive instead of the floppy. > > > > -Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: David Friedman [SMTP:dhf@softhome.net] > > > Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:57 PM > > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: F2 > > > > > > When i start my computer and get the option of 'F1' Dos Partition or > > > 'F2' FreeBSD Partition if i try yo click my pc just beeps, i am > forced > > > into Dos, HELP PLEASE!!!!!! > > > > > > > > > > > > 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
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