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Date:      Thu, 02 Jul 1998 11:17:14 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Percy Cheng <percy@iohk.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About FreeBSD boot manager... 
Message-ID:  <199807021817.LAA01116@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 20:20:31 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.95.980702201646.24391B-100000@igate.iohk.com> 

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> 
> 	I just want to know would BootEasy need a primary
> partition to master the booting?

It can only boot from primary partitions, yes. 

> 	If I want to install win95, win98 and FreeBSD in
> 3 different primary partition, and make the last one  to
> Extended partition, does BootEasy can manage?

Yes, although there are some problems to be careful of here:

 - all of these filesystems must be within the first 1024 cylinders of 
   the disk in order to be bootable.
 - the win98 installation may not get along well with the win95 
   installation (c:\windows != $WINDOWS)

> 	Furthermore, could FreeBSD installed to logical
> drive?? Seems it just can find the extened drive and
> could not detect the logical drive...

No, FreeBSD can't (currently) be booted from a logical drive.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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