From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 2 11:17:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09790 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles224.castles.com [208.214.165.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09716 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01116; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807021817.LAA01116@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Percy Cheng cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About FreeBSD boot manager... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 20:20:31 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 11:17:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message