Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

Steve Wingate s.wingate at pobox.com
Sat Nov 1 19:41:17 PST 2003


> "Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :)
>
> If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to
> reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong.  Try zeroing
> off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put
> FreeBSD on it.

I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is
really ready.


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