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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.66.12.35!news-in.iadfw.net!usenet From: pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 and FreeBSD install Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:49:44 -0600 Organization: IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 Lines: 46 Message-ID: <I9NHzo3qBa3R092yn@airmail.net> References: <ghXGzo3qBqJI092yn@airmail.net> <5fgn9q$b7d$2@easystreet03> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal30-07.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Yarn + Yep + Yin + FTE + VSoup for OS/2 X-Moon-Phase: The Moon is a Waning Crescent (24.2916% of Full). X-OS2-System: The Operating System/2 Version is 3.00 Revision 8.250 X-OS2-System: 16 processes, 62 threads. Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36543 In article <5fgn9q$b7d$2@easystreet03>, tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) wrote: > >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. I noticed this after I tried it about 500 times. :-) Can FreeBSD's boot manager (F:?) boot beyond 1024? Still, creating a primary partition beyond 1024 was causing me some problems when trying to install OS/2 though... I would like to get Warp 3, 4, and FreeBSD installed on the same drive, but I am having trouble fitting all three in the first 504 megabytes. I think I can do it now, I'll give FreeBSD 300 megs, and 100 each for Warp 3 and 4. >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. Interesting, I will remember this > >Ted Thanks, I'll give it a try. Meanwhile, I have (re)installed RedHat Linux 3.0.3, which was quite easy, perhaps I learned something from all my previous attempts... :-) -- Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/