From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 07:56:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC8137B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E59743FA3 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:56:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfk7j.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.208.243] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19Hm3j-0005su-00; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:56:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3EC8F046.9FCDBC7D@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:55:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn References: <200305170123.24631.cbiffle@safety.net> <20030517153042.GA27368@starjuice.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4cdeb0b73ac22cc3db3adb7687b96bee6667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-R won't boot partition 60G into a drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:56:29 -0000 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > For as long as I remember, FreeBSD has had issues booting a kernel > beyond the first 1GB of a disk. Some time last year, changes were made > that allowed for this, but they were backed out because they caused > other problems, and I don't remember them being brought back in. > > The solution many folks (including me) have used to get around this has > been to make the first partition on the disk a small root partition for > FreeBSD, then leave a partition reserved for Windows, and then continue > with FreeBSD's partitions. > > This is easy if you install FreeBSD first, then install Windows and then > reinstall the boot loader from the CDROM. I recommend "Partition Magic". Most Windows "recovery CDs" these days will overwrite the entire disk, due to XP using NTFS, and most recovery software disk mastering software being too stupid to understand sizing/writing NTFS. I.e.: if you followed your advice on the order of operation, you would end up overwriting your disk with nothing but Windows. -- Terry