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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: help! partition problems installing FreeBSD Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 12:18:32 -0500 Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <Uguutcq00iV0I3P6A7@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu I am having trouble getting FreeBSD to install next to a DOS partition on my HD. I have the latest version of the install disks (got them over the net yesterday). My system is a 486DX2 w/EISA and Local buses, a Buslogic 742A HD controller, and Maxtor 7345s scsi drive [2220 cyl, 4 head, 76 sector]. Here's what I did: I erased all partition information with fdisk, ran fdisk/mbr to remove the boot region. then, i created an 85M DOS partition, formatted it, and installed DOS. I started installing FreeBSD. It recognized the DOS partition fine, and I selected all the defaults for the HD (which were correct), and the defaults for installing the filesystem after DOS. This all worked fine. Then, it told me to boot off the hard drive. So I booted DOS off a floppy, and selected the BSD partition as active (actually, it was already active). I booted from the hard drive, and it gave me the message Error loading operating system. I booted DOS off the floppy and selected the DOS partition as active, and it booted just fine. Any idea what's going on? As a side note, I tried installing FreeBSD on the entire drive, and everything worked fine throughout the entire install. I would just do this, but it's important to me to have at least a small DOS partition. Thanks for your help...