From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 9:31:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2043937B40E for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NIMS ModWeb Module; Thu, 09 May 2002 12:31:19 -0400 Subject: Re: boot problem w/multiple OS's From: "Jud" To: markch99@javanet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 12:31:19 -0400 X-Mailer: NIMS ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1020961879.6330fffcjud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Chmura 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