From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 6:55:51 2002 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 3159737B401 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 06:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C37F43E65 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 06:55:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9REtkWJ002058; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:55:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9REtkj1002055; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:55:46 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Jerry McAllister Cc: pippo@bellnet.ca, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add space References: <200210261832.g9QIWi709652@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 27 Oct 2002 09:55:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200210261832.g9QIWi709652@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <44znt07wy5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jerry McAllister writes: > > > > At 05:14 PM 10/26/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps I have to install a boot manager - but which & how? > > > > I don't think it would be that much trouble to use Partition Magic, delete > > slice1 and then reo the fdisk and the rest of the mounting process - but I > > should then install the boot manager - but will it install it on slice 1 > > (ad0s1) ? I suppose from there, the boot manager should poinbt to slice 2 > > to boot... > > I don't think the boot manager goes in any slice. > It goes before them in the boot sector. It gets read up and > executed and it lets you select which bootable slice you want to > boot up. That's correct, but it's only the full story for the standard FreeBSD boot manager (BootEasy). Other boot managers are too large to fit entirely in the Master Boot Record, and need to access a disk slice for partial functionality. It is also possible to put a boot manager in a slice, but this is only useful if the boot manager in the MBR is able to boot that slice. I *very* rarely use my boot manager to do anything but boot my FreeBSD root partition, so I like BootEasy, because if anything bad happens to it, I can fix it easily. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message