From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 14:04:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA19286 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 14:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mendota.terracom.net (mendota.terracom.net [205.213.64.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA19277 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 14:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [205.213.64.30] (rightfield.bugsoft.com [205.213.64.30]) by mendota.terracom.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA08843; Wed, 1 May 1996 16:07:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: craigh@pop.terracom.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 16:04:37 -0500 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu From: craigh@bugsoft.com (Craig A. Heilman) Subject: Re: Q: Install prob. w/ 1 IDE & 1 SCSI drive Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:25 05/01/96, Doug White wrote: >On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Craig A. Heilman wrote: [...] >> (3) I assumed that if I installed BootEasy on wd0, then I would initially >> boot off wd0 where BootEasy would take over, give me a choice of OS, then >> boot FreeBSD no matter where it lives! (ie. above the 500MB BIOS limit). >> Is this an incorrect assumption? Will BootEasy work for my situation and >> which drive should it go on? > >BootEasy must go on the first disk, and it does not overcome the DOS >BIOS limitation. OK - BootEasy must go on my first disk (IDE). The question that still remains is "can my FreeBSD root partition reside above the 500MB limit (ie. can I put it on the SCSI drive)?" Or am I always forced to put FreeBSD's root partition below the 500 MB limit? Thanks, Craig -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Craig A. Heilman Bugaboo Software * * craigh@bugsoft.com Software Engineering & Consulting * * (608) 274-2003 http://www.bugsoft.com/ * --------------------------------------------------------------------------