From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 11 14:33:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1EC16A403 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C91043D64 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:33:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gitv5-0000nJ-5F; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:33:21 +0000 Received: from cse-jg.cse.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.12.37]:56276) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Gituo-0002hl-TJ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:33:02 +0000 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:33:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20061110153506.GB86927@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Message-ID: <20061111142834.A66364@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <001a01c70282$13eb9a00$0500a8c0@c1> <20061108083717.V72340@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20061110153506.GB86927@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-ILRT-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ILRT-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.16, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, AWL 0.28) X-ILRT-MailScanner-From: jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.3 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Bob Schwartz , 'Bill Moran' , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions on first-time installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:33:24 -0000 On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:42:04AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Bob Schwartz wrote: > > > > > ... at least as it is desribed in the DELL > > > docs and bios... > > > > Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able to boot a > > freebsd install for you. > > I have never had a Windows MBR work to boot FreeBSD. On the other > hand I have never had a FreeBSD MBR fail to boot any MS-Win system. > > So, I wonder at your comment here. That's a case of your mileage varying, I guess. > I have never had to correct any partition/slice alignment when using > the standard FreeBSD install. I ignore that Diagnostic slice that > Dell puts on - just leave it there as slice 1, leave MS there as > slice 2 and put FreeBSD on slice 3 - or sometimes I put a FAT32 on > as slice 3 to use for communication if the MS is NTFS, and then put > FreeBSD on slice 4. There has never been any problem with any > alignment or offset. [...] > I have been doing this the way I describe since 1998 with no problem. So to the OP, there you go: use of partition magic to manage the fdisk label apparently works. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Leverage that synergy! Ooh yeah, looking good! Now stretch - and relax.