From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 18:35:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DED16A4CF for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:35:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl439.iae.nl [212.61.63.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B24C43D2D for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:35:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from [212.61.27.71] (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8RIZF9S019886; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:35:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <41585D63.7030405@withagen.nl> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:35:15 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <415837E3.8000105@pythonemproject.com> <20040927161356.GB38998@luke.immure.com> <41583F24.40305@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <41583F24.40305@pythonemproject.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: amd-list Subject: Re: Partioning for a FBSD-64 install X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:35:18 -0000 >>> 2. I have seperate SCSI drives, one for XP-64 and one for >>> FreeBSD-64. In the past I have used grub to boot between OS's. If >>> #1 is true then grub will no longer be on a floppy and will have >>> to become bootable CD unless useable in emulation mode. Is there a >>> grub port for 64? >> You do noet need a special GRUB with 64bit. Even stronger, I think, since amd64 "boots" in 32 bit mode, it expects to find 32bit code in the bootsector. It is only after the kernel starts to boot that the processor gets switched into 64bit mode. I installed all the OS'es I wanted including a version of i386, with which I installed GRUB in the bootsector. And the other stages went into /boot/grub on the i386 partition. The config also went into there, and looks like: --------- serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 terminal serial default 1 timeout 30 title FreeBSD/i386 root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD/amd64 root (hd0,0,d) kernel /boot/loader title Windows 2000 root (hd0,2) makeactive chainloader +1 ---------- Where I'm using Win2000 further to boot either W2k of XP-amd64 --WjW