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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:06:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        kyrra@mediaone.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multi-Booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216230550.11246V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34E8B30B.B9CB645B@mediaone.net>

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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 kyrra@mediaone.net wrote:

> I have been having problems installing FreeBSD.  I beleive when I am
> setting up the drive config I screw something up.  Here is a list of
> drives and thier configurations:
> 
> C:\  is a 7 gig maxtor drive running fat32.  In the FreeBSD setup, it
> says that there are 3 partitions on the drive: a small one... 65 bytes
> or so.  Then there the main partition.. wd0p1 I believe.  There there is
> a third partition which is like 6 or 7 k or so.
> 
> D:\ is a 1.6 gig maxtor drive running fat32.  This drive to my guess
> should have no involvment in the drive setup.  It has 2 partions,
> another 65 byte one and the main one.
> 
> E:\ is a 725 meg quantum drive that is completely empty,  there is
> another 65 byte partition and then the rest I have setup for freebsd.

The BIOS can only boot the first two disks in the system. Swap drive D for
drive E then try it -- it should work.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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