From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 17:19:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B318E37B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id RAA04530 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:19:16 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:19:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8.billschoolcraft.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP In-Reply-To: <3B0C18EC.A4B2E73@urx.com> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i86pc) 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 At Wed, 23 May 2001 it looks like Kent Stewart composed: KS--> KS--> KS-->Bill Schoolcraft wrote: KS-->> KS-->> At Wed, 23 May 2001 it looks like Jason La composed: KS-->> KS-->> JL-->I have a question about triple booting with win98, win2k, KS-->> JL-->and freebsd. KS-->> JL--> KS-->> KS-->> I've had success with using the following, the only difference may KS-->> be that I already had windows and Linux installed, the key for me KS-->> was having ONLY "primary" partitions and in my case the 4th one KS-->> was for FreeBSD and the first cylinder of the (4th KS-->> primary) FreeBSD partition was well above the 1024th KS-->> cylinder. That's because I'm using Linux's LILO as the bootloader. KS--> KS-->One of the advantages of W2K on the MS side is that it allows 4 primary KS-->partitions and one of those can be an extended. How you arrange them is up KS-->to you. ...hmm, I had a strange problem where I had the following, in both scenerios all partitions remained the same size. It appeared that LILO could not boot FreeBSD "over" or "behind" an extended partition: [lilo in mbr] This would not boot. (A) primary = windows (B) primary = Linux SWAP (C) extended = Linux partitions (D) primary = FreeBSD-4.2 (slices inside) This would boot. (no changes in partition sizes) (A) primary = windows (B) primary = Linux SWAP (C) primary = Linux / (all in one partition) (D) primary = FreeBSD-4.2 (slices inside) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message