From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 11:10:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA06133 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA06126 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA24492; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:09:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:09:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: That Doug Guy cc: "FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Boot mgr help please: DOS, FreeBSD and OS/2 on the same disk In-Reply-To: <199701170047.QAA18721@connectnet1.connectnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, That Doug Guy wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD on my home machine so that I have a > test/learning platform for myself. My one and only hard disk is a Western > Digital Caviar 1.6G EIDE drive. I currently have OS/2 on the disk in the > following configuration: > > Primary Partition: OS/2 Boot Manager > Primary Partition: C: drive with DOS > Logical Partition: D: Free space, intended home for FreeBSD > Logical Partition: E: OS/2 system > Logical Partition: F: OS/2 data (HPFS formatted) Line 3 is wrong: FreeBSD requires it's own partition type. > This system has worked well for me for 2+ years, and now I want to > add FreeBSD to my happy family. :) However, in order to install FreeBSD > I had to go through some pretty complex gymnastics with FIPS, etc. which > resulted in the loss of my DOS partition (thank goodness for backups :). I > did however finally get a FreeBSD system up and running, but the problem > came when I tried to boot OS/2. My system had changed to: > > Primary Partition: OS/2 Boot Manager > Primary Partition: C: drive with DOS > Primary Partition: FreeBSD > Logical Partition: D: OS/2 system > Logical Partition: E: OS/2 data (HPFS formatted) FreeBSD had better not be on a primary partition, it better be on it's own slice..... > This prevented OS/2 from booting because of course everything > was on the "wrong" drive. I tried using OS/2's fdisk to create a fake D: > partition with some free space from the C: partition, but ran into the "3+1" > rule, so it wouldn't use the free space that I allocated. I've run into this :) I would suggest buying a cheap drive and put FreeBSD on that. This way, you avoid the nasties of: . moving drive letters . That pesky 500mb can't-boot-above-it limit . Running out of diskspace because you made the partition too small That's what I did and I love it! And the OS/2 boot manager can work with it too! :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major