Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 12:31:19 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: markch99@javanet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot problem w/multiple OS's Message-ID: <1020961879.6330fffcjud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Mark Chmura <markch99@javanet.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 12:14:08 -0400 Subject: boot problem w/multiple OS's I have a 20g hard drive sliced into two partions (or partioned into two slices). The first slice (ad0s1) is 14.2 g and has Win98 installed and the second (ad0s2) is approx. 4.8 g with FreeBSD installed and selected as bootable. I created the second slice from an extended partion that I created when I installed this new 20g seagate hard drive. LBA mode was selected with 39102336, 512 bit sectors. [snip] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I thought FreeBSD needed a primary partition - how did you manage to get it= installed to an extended partition? Use a partitioning utility to get rid of the extended partition and put a p= rimary partition in the 4.8gb space. You can do this without losing data= in your Win98 partition by using a commercial product such as Partition = Magic or System Commander (I *think* that's the right name for it), share= ware (I've used and liked BootItNG from Terabyte Unlimited), or freeware = (I think the XOSL bootloader uses Ranish Partition Manager as a partition= ing utility, though since I haven't used it, I may be wrong about that.) Once you have a primary partition and have FreeBSD installed in it, the Fre= eBSD bootloader should work just fine. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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