Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:29:29 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot loader question Message-ID: <200008170629.XAA12467@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <399B7888.4BD1F7ED@oz.net> from Victoria Welch at "Aug 16, 2000 10:30:48 pm"
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Victoria Welch wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and while I have a firewall box up using it > (still trying to get that properly configured for my needs, but that is > another story and I am still working on it :-). > > I'd like to install this on my personal machine. I am not familiar > enough with all this to know what is used for the equivalent of lilo or > the basic loader. I'm more than willing to free up a 5G chunk of my > drive, but my two primary partitions are taken up with win98 (only > because I am a flight sim junkie :-) and RedHat 6.1 which I do use and > would rather not delete yet. > > Will whatever fbsd uses for a loader operate out past the 1024 cyl. > limit? And allow me to boot the linux and w98 partitions? As of 4.1-RELEASE, yes. Before 4.1 it could not, however. -- 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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