From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 20:46:41 2005 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 E10BB16A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:46:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george.ruch@3lefties.com) Received: from server.3lefties.com (server.3lefties.com [66.18.174.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E9343D49 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:46:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george.ruch@3lefties.com) Received: from [192.168.0.99] ([208.50.195.90]) by server.3lefties.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA28672 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:43:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.336 [267.8.15]); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:46:38 -0600 From: George Ruch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:46:37 -0600 Message-ID: References: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> <20050715195400.GA31714@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Three questions... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: george.ruch@3lefties.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:46:42 -0000 David Kelly wrote: > You haven't tried installing FreeBSD yet? I ask because the very simple > boot block FreeBSD installs has always worked well for me. Then again > the last Microsoft product I booted with it was either NT4 or Win98. I have, on both my smaller machine (K6-3/400, single 25GB drive) and on the big machine I described. On the little machine, it came up looking like a minimal LILO. It would boot XP correctly, but came up with '??' for the XP partition. > Its elegant in that it waits about 10 seconds then proceeds to boot what > ever selection you made the previous time. One selection is "boot the > next disk" where control is transfered to what ever boot manager is on > the next disk. FreeBSD can be on the 2nd drive and still bootable. The > boot process simply hops from one drive to the next. I never got to that point on the big machine. After the first trial install, it rebooted into XP - no boot manager prompt. I'm thinking boot manager installed to the MBR of the second drive, which probably means I missed something in the partitioning or in sysinstall itself. As an alternative, I may just strip the little machine and set it up as full FreeBSD. That would give me time to get more comfortable with it while I sort out the 2-disk dual boot. Re BootMagic: It probably won't recognize any FreeBSD partition type. There are no references to FreeBSD in the Symantec support references, and PM started from the CD reported an error 108(IIRC) when the FreeBSD partition was present on the big machine. Apparently, it had trouble interpreting the partition table with an type 165 partition entry. - George Ruch -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.336 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 7/14/2005