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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and FreeBSD install
Date: 4 Mar 1997 08:42:34 GMT
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In article <ghXGzo3qBqJI092yn@airmail.net>, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) says:
>
>I amd trying to install FreeBSD with OS/2 installed on a WD Caviar
>21600 drive partitioned as follows:
>

OS/2 boot manager can only boot partitions that entirely fall underneath
the 1024 cylinder boundary.  You can create additional partitions under
OS/2 all day, but you cannot add them to boot manager boot selector
if any part of them goes above 1024.

Also, when you get to the OS/2 fdisk screen as part of the OS/2
installation, it has already switched over to protected mode, and
is using the real geometry queried from the hard disk itself by
ST506.ADD, or whatever your .ADD file is, not the ficticious geometry
the drive lies to BIOS about.

You might attempt to use the /V switch after ST506.ADD or whatever
your .ADD file is and see what the geometry that OS/2 thinks it's
using really is.  You will have to edit the config.sys file and add 
this.  Then, make sure that your using the same geometry in the FreeBSD
partition screen, and you should then be able to create a BSD partition.

Also, don't define the partition you want freeBSD to go in in the
OS/2 FDISK screen, just leave it as empty space.

Ted