Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:18:44 -0000 (GMT) From: "Thomas Beer" <mailings@analogon.com> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com Cc: mailings@analogon.com Subject: Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR Message-ID: <4468.62.225.232.225.1096460324.squirrel@62.225.232.225> In-Reply-To: <16726.60956.268461.310990@satchel.alerce.com> References: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> <20040925205504.05BDD5D09@ptavv.es.net> <16726.60956.268461.310990@satchel.alerce.com>
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Dear All, another questions emerges. The NTFS XP Partition covers apprx. the first 8,8 GB of the disk. Will there be a problem with the BIOS 1024 Cylinder Limit or the 2GB Boot Code Boundary if I try to install the FreeBSD bootloader, leave XP where it is and splitt the XP partition in two 25GB partitions installing FBSD in the second part (starting at ~ 25GB)? Thanks Tom > Kevin Oberman writes: > > [...] > > If you install FreeBSD, I'd suggest using BootEasy as a part of the > > FreeBSD install, but you can use GRUB, LILO, the NT boot tool, or > pretty > > much what you prefer. I'm not sure LILO and GRUB will work or V5, > > though. [...] > > If by V5 you mean FreeBSD5, grub works just fine. If you have a UFS2 > root partition you need to make sure that you use a new enough version > of grub so that it can find the loader/kernel, but it's been able to > do that for a while (the version in the ports tree works great). > > g. > > >
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