From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 8: 2:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zipcon.net (zipcon.net [209.221.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14B7237B402 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6090 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2002 16:04:03 -0000 Received: from chonk.zipcon.net (HELO there) (209.221.137.5) by zipcon.net with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 16:04:03 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Herman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: does FREEBSD work with either "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magi c" b y Power Quest? Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:06:02 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <97BD6CFFDACDD511BD090008C75DD04F01416A8E@msgnorth12.ffcrc.pacbell.com> In-Reply-To: <97BD6CFFDACDD511BD090008C75DD04F01416A8E@msgnorth12.ffcrc.pacbell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020318160234.14B7237B402@hub.freebsd.org> 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 On Monday 18 March 2002 01:12 am, HODGE, DAVE (SBCSI) wrote: > I'm trying to utilize one boot method for many various OS systems > that I need to run for evaluation. What I'm trying to find out is do > you know if the Power Quest product "Partition Magic" or "Boot > Magic" have been successfully used with FREEBSD OS? If yes, how were > the products utilized? I use boot magic (from Partition Magic5 bundle) to boot freeBSD just fine. I had linux, qnx, BeOS and winders installed and booting w/ Boot Magic before installing freeBSDand just had to tell freeBSD not to overwrite the mbr when I installed it. You may run into trouble if you try booting from diferent bsd kernels in the same partition/slice, this could probably be circumvented by telling freeBSD to put its boot manager in the correct place. I haven't gotten that far yet. Partition Magic 5 won't write BSD slices but can be used to free up disk space. good luck. -- dh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message