Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 16:46:32 -0800 From: "That Doug Guy" <tiller@connectnet.com> To: "FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Boot mgr help please: DOS, FreeBSD and OS/2 on the same disk Message-ID: <199701170047.QAA18721@connectnet1.connectnet.com>
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Howdy, :) I want to install FreeBSD on my home machine so that I have a test/learning platform for myself. My one and only hard disk is a Western Digital Caviar 1.6G EIDE drive. I currently have OS/2 on the disk in the following configuration: Primary Partition: OS/2 Boot Manager Primary Partition: C: drive with DOS Logical Partition: D: Free space, intended home for FreeBSD Logical Partition: E: OS/2 system Logical Partition: F: OS/2 data (HPFS formatted) This system has worked well for me for 2+ years, and now I want to add FreeBSD to my happy family. :) However, in order to install FreeBSD I had to go through some pretty complex gymnastics with FIPS, etc. which resulted in the loss of my DOS partition (thank goodness for backups :). I did however finally get a FreeBSD system up and running, but the problem came when I tried to boot OS/2. My system had changed to: Primary Partition: OS/2 Boot Manager Primary Partition: C: drive with DOS Primary Partition: FreeBSD Logical Partition: D: OS/2 system Logical Partition: E: OS/2 data (HPFS formatted) This prevented OS/2 from booting because of course everything was on the "wrong" drive. I tried using OS/2's fdisk to create a fake D: partition with some free space from the C: partition, but ran into the "3+1" rule, so it wouldn't use the free space that I allocated. My question is, what is the best way to acheive my desired goal? Re-installing OS/2 is an option, but not a desirable one. I have read some about the other boot managers for FreeBSD, would Boot Easy or OS-BS be able to fool OS/2 into thinking that it was still on the E: partition? Also, if one of the other boot managers can live without a primary partition to run from, I could always delete OS/2's Boot Manager and create the fake D: partition that way. blessings, Doug
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