Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:06:02 -0800 From: David Herman <ob1@yifan.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: does FREEBSD work with either "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magi c" b y Power Quest? Message-ID: <20020318160234.14B7237B402@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <97BD6CFFDACDD511BD090008C75DD04F01416A8E@msgnorth12.ffcrc.pacbell.com> References: <97BD6CFFDACDD511BD090008C75DD04F01416A8E@msgnorth12.ffcrc.pacbell.com>
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On Monday 18 March 2002 01:12 am, HODGE, DAVE (SBCSI) wrote: > I'm trying to utilize one boot method for many various OS systems > that I need to run for evaluation. What I'm trying to find out is do > you know if the Power Quest product "Partition Magic" or "Boot > Magic" have been successfully used with FREEBSD OS? If yes, how were > the products utilized? I use boot magic (from Partition Magic5 bundle) to boot freeBSD just fine. I had linux, qnx, BeOS and winders installed and booting w/ Boot Magic before installing freeBSDand just had to tell freeBSD not to overwrite the mbr when I installed it. You may run into trouble if you try booting from diferent bsd kernels in the same partition/slice, this could probably be circumvented by telling freeBSD to put its boot manager in the correct place. I haven't gotten that far yet. Partition Magic 5 won't write BSD slices but can be used to free up disk space. good luck. -- dh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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