Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:49:02 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "HODGE, DAVE (SBCSI)" <dh5818@sbc.com>, "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: does FREEBSD work with either "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magic" b y Power Quest? Message-ID: <20020319004902.DF588BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020318160431.25199.qmail@operamail.com> References: <20020318160431.25199.qmail@operamail.com>
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| > I'm trying to utilize one boot method for many various OS systems that I
| > need to run for evaluation. What I'm trying to find out is do you know if
| > the Power Quest product "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magic" have been
| > successfully used with FREEBSD OS? If yes, how were the products
| > utilized?
Partition Magic does not deal with FreeBSD partitions. FreeBSD demands to
have one primary partition, and subdivides within that space itself. (To
keep everybody confused, it calls these primary partitions "slices.")
Parition Magic is useful to prepare an existing disk to receive FreeBSD, but
it cannot resize or move an existing FreeBSD partition.
BootMagic could probably handle FreeBSD fine, though I find FreeBSD's own
BootEasy to be better (because it remembers the *previous* boot target and
uses that as the default--this is almost always what I want and I know of no
other boot program that behaves this way).
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