Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:47:56 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <200008072147.OAA32663@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210105b5b4d23a68a8@[128.113.24.47]> from Garance A Drosihn at "Aug 7, 2000 04:58:09 pm"
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:52 PM -0500 8/7/00, dpoland@execpc.com wrote: > >This may not help you, but I gave up and bought PartitionMagic. > >It comes with BootMagic that replaces both WinNT/FBSD boot > >managers and allows multi-os booting. One reason I choose this > >was because I failed to create a / partion for FBSD that was > >under 1024 cylinder barrier. I had to re-partition my HD and > >didn't want to re-install Win2k and all the junk that goes > >along with it. My partion scheme turned out to be: > > FAT16: 50MB - BootMagic needs a DOS partion to > > store it's stuff > > UFS: 50MB - / partition for FBSD 4.0 > > NTFS: 8GB - just barely enough room ;) > > UFS: 3GB - /usr /var /swap for FBSD > > Another option is PowerBoot from > http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/pboot.html > > It has worked quite well for me, and does not require a > separate partition. On the other hand, I don't know if > it would work for booting something past the 1024-cylinder > mark. In my case, I have used it for booting a variety > of Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, and OpenBSD systems. The latest version of boot0 should boot past the 1024 cylinder fine if your BIOS isn't older than 1996 or thereabouts. Note that the one included with 4.1 has a bug that may cause it to hang on some systems, though. :( -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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