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From: paco@Virginia.EDU (Brian -Paco- Hope)
Subject: FreeBSD and OS/2
Message-ID: <D0w3Ju.KLy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: paco@quokka.acc.Virginia.EDU (Brian -Paco- Hope)
Organization: Some Loco Hombre
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 06:04:42 GMT
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I would love to find any information on making FreeBSD and OS/2
work together.

Namely, my questions are: How can I get OSBS to boot my OS/2 partition?
and how can I (if it is possible) get FreeBSD to access my HPFS partition
on my OS/2 drive?

I have FreeBSD on one SCSI drive and OS/2 on the other.  OSBS doesn't
want to boot OS/2 off the second disk.  (Says "Missing Operating System")
OS/2's boot manager will boot FreeBSD, but FreeBSD panics and hangs
because it isn't on disk 0.  (I have to make the OS/2 disk act as disk 
0 to use its boot manager)  I've investigated the idea of making new boot
blocks and disklabeling the FreeBSD disk, but I don't have the requisite
know-how to do that all by myself.

Any tips, suggestions, etc?

Thanks,

Paco
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			Brian   "Paco"   Hope                          
Department of Computer Science          email: paco@virginia.edu      
    University of Virginia       WWW: http://uvacs.cs.virginia.edu/~bah6f/