From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 12:18:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED83216A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wbm1.pair.net (wbm1.pair.net [209.68.3.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6985543D49 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:18:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailings@analogon.com) Received: (qmail 61681 invoked by uid 65534); 29 Sep 2004 12:18:44 -0000 Received: from 62.225.232.225 ([62.225.232.225]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user toms@analogon.com); by webmail1.pair.com with HTTP; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:18:44 -0000 (GMT) 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> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:18:44 -0000 (GMT) From: "Thomas Beer" To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org cc: mailings@analogon.com Subject: Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mailings@analogon.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:18:46 -0000 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. > > >