From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 12 23:50:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.inwind.it (relay4.inwind.it [212.141.53.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C7137B440 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemons@inwind.it) Received: from cumine.inwind.it (62.98.82.26) by relay4.inwind.it (5.5.025) id 3ACAF525001B5AD0; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:49:42 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010413072601.00a4f518@popmail.inwind.it> X-Sender: daemons@popmail.inwind.it (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:49:53 +0200 To: Bill Schoolcraft From: Omar Gani Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010412232022.00a4aec8@popmail.inwind.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 20.06 12/04/2001 -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > >Being a creature of habit, I just keep working around the 1024 >cylinder problem. I hear the new LILO can see beyond that now. > >I've made a little demo for some customers I had at work when they >called for dual boot adivce and the 1024 cylinder issue with Linux. > >http://wiliweld.com/lba.txt > >Can anyone share their experience with FreeBSD's bootloader and >controlling Linux and Windows ? Well, I have FreeBSD, Linux and WIN2K installed in my 1st hard disk, with all the bootable partition under 1024 cylinder: 1st: FreeBSD 2nd: Linux boot 3rd: NTFS(WIN2K) 4rd: Linux and all remaining data/program in my 2nd hard disk. I use os-bs (ftp://ftp.se.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbs135.exe) as boot manager, it's incredibly reliable (this piece of code is written in 91-92!). I just love it. Very easy to use, extremely reliable, just plain simple boot manager, can't live without it :) I don't use FreeBSD's bootloader because you can save os-bs in a floppy and install it whenever you want, just in case a virus overwrite the MBR and you want to reinstall it. But I think FreeBSD's bootloader is better, I guess it can boot a partition in 2nd hard disk, you have to use osbsbeta for this(but I convince this beta is safe). I use LILO only to boot Linux, since I had bad experience with it, so I just don't trust it. I think the only problem having triple (or more) OS in a computer is managing all the bootable partition under 1024 and make no more than 4 partitions in a hard disk. Linux ridiculously need separate swap partition make thing worse. Having a 2nd hard disk just solve the almost all the problems. I use a pfdisk (ftp://ftp.se.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/pfdisk.exe) to create all the partitions and refine it with others OS *official* partition program. pfdisk is another incredible ancient piece of code written in 90-91 that safe my life couple of times. ciao omarg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message