Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:24:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <200008080024.RAA38729@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210107b5b4ea8e200e@[128.113.24.47]> from Garance A Drosihn at "Aug 7, 2000 07:04:09 pm"
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:47 PM -0700 8/7/00, John Baldwin wrote: > >The latest version of boot0 should boot past the 1024 > >cylinder fine if your BIOS isn't older than 1996 or > >thereabouts. Note that the one included with 4.1 has a > >bug that may cause it to hang on some systems, though. :( > > Does the newest boot0 understand booting NTFS (Win2k) > partitions, and extended partitions (linux)? That's the > main reason I went with PowerBoot, and stick with it. > It seems that all the free boot-manager options have had > trouble with one or more of the systems I am trying to > boot up. It should boot NTFS fine. Boot managers don't have to grok file systems, they just load the first sector to a standardized location and execute it. Extended partitions are harder. There isn't an actual standard way of treating them that I know of. Most of them don't have actual bootable code in them, for example. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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