Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:35:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10011301733180.80391-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001130173952.0495e760@localhost>
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brett Glass wrote: :At 07:10 AM 11/30/2000, Jamie Bowden wrote: : :>I used OS/2's boot manager for a very long time and still would if OS/2 :>Warp would install on my current hardware, but having also bought :>Partition Magic, I have found Boot Magic to be a very good replacement. : :Do the IBM Boot Manager and Boot Magic replace the BIOS hard disk code :as OnTrack Disk Manager does? It seems to me that this is what might be :needed to get things working if the original AT BIOS can't handle the :drive. The IBM Boot Manager lives on it's own partition. You can put it at the front or back of the disk free space. Boot Magic appears to takeover the boot sector and the beginning of my Win98 partition, so you'd need a minimal dos/win partition to use it. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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