Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:30:11 -0400 From: Mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: Omar Gani <daemons@inwind.it>, bobread@ids.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3AD6F153.B08E1B85@ocsinternet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104121948420.27446-100000@corten8>
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On my Dell i7000 I presently have the following; 1 Primary 'C' w98 4.6g 2 Logical 'D' fat32 1.5g 3 Primary fBSD 5.2g The fBSD bootmanager handles these quite well. At on time I had Corel Linux in place of the Logical, and both other partitions were a bit smaller. One thing that is disappointing with PM type utilities is that they don't recognize fBSD/UFS yet, and unfortunately I don't think they intend to support it any time soon. On that note does anyone else feel that it would be worth having such a utility? Cheers, Mikel Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > At Thu, 12 Apr 2001 it looks like Omar Gani composed: > > daemon->Keep in mind that you can't make more than 4 partitions in a > daemon->hard disk. So unless you put linux partitions on logical > daemon->DOS/win9X partition, you have to exactly 4 partition (DOS/win9X, > daemon->FreeBSD, Linux & Linux's SWAP). > daemon-> > > I have the same triple boot running on a laptop with LILO booting > them all. In LBA mode I installed in four primaries on a 6 gig > drive with the nose of the 4th primary partiton (FreeBSD) beginning > under the 1024 cylinder mark: > > Windows = 2.5 gig > Linux /boot = 25MB > Linux / = 2 gig > FBSD = remainder of drive. I did create the 4th primary while > installing Linux but left it unformatted and made sure I chose NOT > to install the FreeBSD bootloader on anything. I grew up with LILO > and just default to it. The /etc/lilo.conf stanza's for the Linux > file looks like this: > > (/etc/lilo.conf) > > ######################################### > > [root@corten2 ~]--> less /etc/lilo.conf > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > prompt > timeout=50 > default=linux > > other=/dev/hda1 > label=dos > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 > label=linux > read-only > root=/dev/hda3 > > other=/dev/hda4 > label=bsd > > ######################################### > > 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 ? > > -- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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