On Wed, 03 Feb 1999, you wrote:
>Sorry, this isn't linux, but someone here may know.
>
>I installed FreeBSD to the 2nd partition on the second drive (wd1s1). I
>can't get the damn thing to boot though. System commander sees FreeBSD,
>but when it tries to boot, I get "Read Error". I've tried to boot with the
>Install floppy, entering "1:wd(1,b)" and just about every combination of
>the displayed commands that I think might work.
>
>If I can get it to boot from the floppy, my mission would be accomplished.
>So, any advice you can give me would be beneficial.
How big is your HD? If it's more than 8G, you're experiencing the same problem
everyone else does... Most bootloaders use the CHS hard-disk addressing scheme,
and that's limited to 8G.
I have a solution: GRUB. Mail me if you want it.
Taral
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