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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!pencotts.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Second HD and OS/2 Bootmanager? Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:25:28 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <816438328.26077@pencotts.demon.co.uk> References: <48avi0$5lk@news.map.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jay@map.com X-URL: news:48avi0$5lk@news.map.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii jay@map.com wrote: >Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD on a second HD with OS/2 on the >first and used OS/2's Boot Manager to boot FreeBSD? Yes >I'm about to install FreeBSD, and was wondering if anyone has had to (or >wanted to) do this, and what they did to get it working. Used the OS/2 fdisk to create the FreeBSD partition (as a DOS one) then installed FreeBSD, getting the FreeBSD FDISK to re-label that partition/slice as BSD (we couldn't persuade OS/2 to pick up an existing BSD partition for some reason). That machine has OS/2 on an IDE disk, then a 1Gb SCSI disk split 500Mb for DOS, 500Mb for FreeBSD. OS/2 bootmanager will boot any of the three. >A second question for those in the know - If I make space on the first HD for >a swap partition, will the FreeBSD fdisk mark it as something other than a >DOS or OS/2 partition? I wouldn't want OS/2 to think another partition has >appeared, since that would certainly confuse OS/2 as to where it is booting >from. You could in theory swap to a file on a DOS partition (via the vnode driver - see vnconfig(8) ), but I wouldn't recommend it. As above, OS/2 bootmanager doesn't seem to mind if a partition that used to be DOS changes to become BSD.