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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!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 and FreeBSD install Date: 6 Mar 1997 04:58:00 GMT Organization: Cool Dudes Inc. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5fliso$dpo$4@easystreet03> References: <ghXGzo3qBqJI092yn@airmail.net> <5fgn9q$b7d$2@easystreet03> <I9NHzo3qBa3R092yn@airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunnet.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36618 In article <I9NHzo3qBa3R092yn@airmail.net>, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) says: > >In article <5fgn9q$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 don't think so. Actually, I also think that their boot manager has problems when the BIOS doesen't support LBA translation. You can always take a gander at the code. >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. > You might try a product called something like Partition Commander, or some such, I see it advertised a lot in the OS/2 community, and they might have gotten around the 1024 cylinder limit. Also, I believe that modern SCSI adapters have gotten around all this nonsense, if you can afford to switch to SCSI. > >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... :-) > Maybe use the Linux boot manager to boot FreeBSD? ;-) The standard FreeBSD bootstrap doesen't care anything about the disk geometry, fortunately. but you can only use it in "incompatible with all other partitiom mode" I've booted giant IDE disks this way with no trouble. Ted