Re: Which OS on old laptop?

From: Sebastian (bastiraase_at_arcor.de)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:29:25 +0200

> > Yes, because I'm running DOS / Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, too.
>
> I see. I think you will have to do one of the following:
> a) get a bigger harddisk which have space for all OS'es *without* using
> the disk manager software.
> b) remove the other OS'es
a) I don't know why but the BIOS can only handle 554 cyl / 16 hd / 63 sec =
273 MB, so a bigger harddisk won't work
b) it isn't possible because i need dos for playing around and win95 for
reading (e)books

> or you are out of luck.
more possible

> > This is the problem: The BIOS is saying the correct size (without) but
the
> > geometry is incorrect in ANY partition program under ANY OS :(
> Have you tried with FreeBSD also?
Yes: With DM i can partition in the installation process, but later I see,
what all OSs without DM see - one big partition, bigger than the specs.

> > But on mine poorly not ... I simply cannot boot FreeBSD - but I
installed it
> > correctly with the diskmanager.
> One more thing to try:
> try to boot it with the bootloader from DOS / Windows
> See
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADE
R
> (yes, the instructions are for NT, but should work on W95 also).
All I need is something like LOADLIN for FreeBSD ... but my bootmanager
doesn't boot an bootsector-file, only a partition. And if I select the
FreeBSD partition I get the following messages:
not ufs
no /boot/loader
no /kernel

and then the standard bootprompt, where I can't specify any devices,
partitions etc.

Regards,

Sebastian

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