Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:15:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> To: system@pathfinder.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-booting win98 and FreeBSD problem Message-ID: <20020731161555.98410.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200207310845.g6V8j4g9029407@guevara.di.uoa.gr>
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I am not completely sure but my first instinct is that when using the freebsd boot manager, any os you wish the boot manager to find must be within a certain number of sectors/cylinders/heads blah blah blah. Therefore when you have multiple os's you wish to be bootable, you would do something like make a small slice for freebsd, probably a slice just big enough for the "/" directory. Then make after that a little slice for the "Bill Gates Hell Zone". Then after that make the rest of the disk for freebsd. And finally make the entire second disk another "Bill Gates Zone of Hell". You see in my theory the problem is that the boot manager uses a finite number of bits to determine where each of the os's start, and by making "bill gates land" begin on the second disk, it is beyond the largest number that those bits can count up to and so it just loads the only os it can find. And then again I may be completely wrong haha. Well at least my theory sounds good. One day maybe I will get around to reading the boot manager that freebsd uses, or any boot manager for that matter. God luck. Wayne --- system@pathfinder.gr wrote: > People, > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.4 and Win98SE each on its > own disk. > (FreeBSD on /dev/ad0s1a and Win98SE on /dev/ad1s1 ). > > I have also installed the FreeBSD boot manager on > ad0. > > (ad0 is the primary master and ad1 is the primary > slave) > > When the computer boots, I get this prompt: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > > When I press F1, FreeBSD boots nice and well. > > But, when I press F5, then instead of win98, FreeBSD > boots again (nice > and well). > > Any help? > > > P.S. : ad1 is bootable (FAT32). > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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