From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 4 7:20:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB12815440 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id HAA80349; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 690FD150C3 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 42091 invoked by uid 1003); 4 Oct 1999 14:21:28 -0000 Message-Id: <19991004142128.42090.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: 4 Oct 1999 14:21:28 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za Reply-To: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: docs/14116: article-ify multi-os Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 14116 >Category: docs >Synopsis: article-ify multi-os >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 4 07:20:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Neil Blakey-Milner >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society >Environment: FreeBSD rucus.ru.ac.za 3.0-STABLE FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 9 22:52:23 GMT 1999 grahams@rucus.ru.ac.za:/usr/src/sys/compile/RUCUS-SMP i386 >Description: multi-os article wasn't. Still needs whitespace/indentation stuff. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: cvs diff: Diffing . Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 article.sgml --- article.sgml 1999/09/06 06:52:37 1.6 +++ article.sgml 1999/10/04 14:16:13 @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ - - + +
- - + Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems @@ -27,10 +26,9 @@ rhh@ct.picker.com, and Jordan K. Hubbard jkh@time.cdrom.com - - + - + Overview Most people can't fit these operating systems together @@ -53,9 +51,9 @@ called Partition Magic, which lets you size and delete partitions without consequence. - + - + Overview of Boot Managers These are just brief descriptions of some of the different boot @@ -124,9 +122,9 @@ FAT32 also modifies the traditional FAT boot sector and allocation table, making it incompatible with some boot managers. - + - + A Typical Installation Let's say I have two large EIDE hard drives, and I want to @@ -235,9 +233,9 @@ - + - + Special Considerations Most operating systems are very picky about where and how they are @@ -270,9 +268,9 @@ as FAT). Linux can read and write to most file systems. Got that? I hope so. - + - + Examples (section needs work, please send your example to @@ -302,9 +300,9 @@ FreeBSD+Linux+Win95: (see ) - + - + Other Sources of Help There are many file:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD. - + - + Technical Details (Contributed by Randall Hopper, @@ -350,7 +348,7 @@ unfamiliar and then start reading. - + Disk Primer Three fundamental terms are used to describe the location of @@ -403,9 +401,9 @@ Ok, enough terminology. We're talking about booting here. - + - + The Booting Process On the first sector of your disk (Cyl 0, Head 0, Sector 1) @@ -498,14 +496,14 @@ the first probed disk. The boot manager you will install will be hooked into the MBR on this first probed hard disk that we've just described. - + - + Booting Limitations and Warnings Now the interesting stuff that you need to watch out for. - + The dreaded 1024 cylinder limit and how BIOS LBA helps The first part of the booting process is all done through the @@ -576,9 +574,9 @@ FreeBSD existing on one of my hard disks above the 1024th physical cylinder, and both operating systems boot fine, thanks to BIOS LBA). - + - + Boot Managers and Disk Allocation Another gotcha to watch out when installing boot managers is @@ -655,9 +653,9 @@ - + - + What if your machine won't boot? At some point when installing boot managers, you might leave the @@ -676,7 +674,7 @@ then boot DOS (and DOS only) off the hard drive. Alternatively, just re-run your boot manager installation program off a bootable floppy. + - - +
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