From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 5 10:27: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684DB37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAACAC; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:29:31 -0700 Message-ID: <39B52C49.491BCACA@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:24:25 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan KORONKA Cc: "'Hemanth K. Manda'" , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple OS installation !! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stefan KORONKA wrote: > > I hope this is clear enough ... > > The BIOS of the PCs have a limitation: it cannot boot over the > 1024 cylinder. This limitation also accures to the boot manager, > which use the BIOS functions in the boot process. I don't know > any boot manager which can boot over this limit. > > As I heard, version 5 of FreeBSD will know to boot over this 1024 > limit. Until then, you have to install it on a partition which > begin under 1024cyl. One way around this is to create four partitions. Two of them should be below the 1024th cylinder, and the others filling up the rest of the space. These smaller partitions are the root partitions for their respective systems (C: and /). For example: #1: 512 cylinders, dos-vfat filesystem, Windows C: #2: 512 cylinders, bsd filesystem, FreeBSD / #3: 13~ Gigs, dos-vfat filesystem, Windows D: #4: 6~ Gigs, bsd filesystem, FreeBSD /usr David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message