I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
Hello, I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz. The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the disk to 32 GBytes, and that's enough for my BIOS at this moment. So I've got

Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Jan 16 at 12:30, Juan Rodriguez Hervella spoke: Hello, I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz. The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the disk to 32 GBytes,

Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Dany
Using SBM Smart Boot Manager http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ I was able to boot my FreeBSD 5.2R out of the box which is located on the upper part of the disk (40G to 80G). It uses MBR for installation, so you can boot from a DOS floppy. Backup your existing MBR and isntall this nice tool. Dany

Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Dany
Using SBM Smart Boot Manager http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ I was able to boot my FreeBSD 5.2R out of the box which is located on the upper part of the disk (40G to 80G). It uses MBR for installation, so you can boot from a DOS floppy. Backup your existing MBR and isntall this nice tool. Dany