Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:41:29 +0000 From: Neil Brendan Clark <nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re IDE/eIDE issues Message-ID: <199511170941.JAA03749@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:08:54 PST." <199511170108.RAA02644@ref.tfs.com>
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In message <199511170108.RAA02644@ref.tfs.com>you write: >As you've got the two FreeBSD parts next to each other, >why did you make 2? The main reason was that as well as FreeBSD and a (token) DOS partition, I also wanted to install another OS, QNX on the same disk as well. QNX is similar in its demands to FreeBSD with regards to IDE disks, i.e. its boot partition must reside lower than the 1024th cylinder. 3 onto 1 does not always easily go! The way I allocated space was like this; DOS 128M QNX 330M FBSD1 20M FBSD2 553M which allowed me to access all OS's freely without changing any BIOS parameters, aside from removing the initial brain damaged IDE translation. If I had merged FBSD1 and FBSD2 into the one partition, it would not be wholly within the reach of the BIOS and would not boot. I know this, since I tried it ;-) Neil
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