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From: jensting@ic.ac.uk (Jens Tingleff)
Subject: Re: can OS/2 boot manager boot FreeBSD?
Message-ID: <1993Nov6.113121.801@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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Organization: Elec. Eng. Imperial College, London
References: <1993Nov5.011523.6797@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <2bcegu$hlf@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 93 11:31:21 GMT
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In article <2bcegu$hlf@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
> If I remember correctly, OS/2's boot manager requires some hacking in order
> for it to recognize the FreeBSD partition as a 'valid' partition.
>
> Since os-bs works fine, why not stick with it. The problem lies in OS/2,
> not FreeBSD.
I got OS/2 2.1 bootmanager to boot FreeBSD without a single glitch!. I tried
using the old version of os-bs, but that wouldn't boot OS/2 from an extended
partition. I tried a silly setup with a DOS primary partition, two OS/2
partitions (both logical drives in one extended partition) and FreeBSD in one
primary partition. After some grief (not least because OS/2 wouldn't install to a
logical drive *until* I installed OS/2 boot manager), I started from scratch,
using OS/2 FDISK, making first an OS/2 bootmanager partition, then a 4 MB DOS
boot partition, then an extended partition for two OS/2 logical drives and
finally left the rest blank for FreeBSD. I then installed FreeBSD (which found
the last empty chunk with not problems) and finally added the FreeBSD partition
to OS/2 bootmanager. NO PROBLEMS!
So, contrary to popular opinion, OS/2 bootmanager is not completely broken (for
me that is; standard disclaimers apply!)
Jens
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Mr Jens Tingleff, M.Sc.EE. PhD student at
Imperial College, Dept of EE, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BT, England
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