Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:32:10 -0400 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19991021153210.00a9acc0@mail.embt.com> In-Reply-To: <05bd01bf1bdd$d38fc400$0307070a@shannon-s>
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At 10:03 AM 10/21/99 -0600, Shannon Wheeler wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> >Date: October 20, 1999 8:25 PM > > >>>I have a 12G drive and I couldn't get FreeBSD to work in the last half of >>the drive because it only saw 16383 cylinders rather than the 21xxx that >>there actually was. So I put FreeBSD in the first partition and Win95 in >>the second. >> >>Dandy. >> >>>I use a freeware partition manager to select which to boot from here at >>work but at home with the same setup I use fdisk to specify the active >>partition. Windows has no problem booting from the second partition as long >>as it's a primary partition and marked active. >> >>If it works.. I'd use a boot manager, it's easier. > > >Well it's on a 486 (AMD K5/133. PCI) whose BIOS is not flashable and doesn't >handle the entire 12G properly. I therefore had to use Disk Manager when I >set it up originally (all Win95). If I install a boot manager I lose the >Disk Manager so the BIOS (I guess that'd be where the problem lies) won't >see the second partition and let me boot from it. Therefore I always have to >use fdisk when I want to boot into the non-current OS. Oooh K. Now I understand your situation. Disk Manglers(Managers) are a pain, but it doesn't look like much can be done about it. >>>I don't know for sure whether this would work if the first partition was >>also a DOS partition but I think you'd have a hard time creating more than >>one DOS partition anyway. >>> >> >>What's wrong with lots of DOS partitions? > > >Well, I meant DOS's FDISK won't let you create more than one Primary >Partition. Ah. Yes you have to use something else for that, like efdisk or Partition Magic. I haven't used regular DOS FDISK in soo long I wasn't thinking about it. I have got a great little bootable DOS disk here that has both of em on it, I use it ALOT. >Shannon Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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