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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!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.gtn.com!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!www.punkt.de!not-for-mail From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OS2 Boot Manager with FreeBSD? Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:57:48 GMT Organization: WEB Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bc35de$76b95300$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> References: <333200f1.183330601@news.gte.net> <5gtgl0$c0s$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugo09.ticsoft.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37445 Philipp Mergenthaler <s_mergen@ira.uka.de> schrieb im Beitrag <5gtgl0$c0s$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>... > Jeff Tomich <hoot@d-s-s.com> wrote: > > Can FreeBSD boot from the OS2 boot manager? > Yes, it works perfect. I did the original partitioning of my disk with > OS/2 and left a part of the disk unused. > After installing FreeBSD I used OS/2's fdisk to include this partition into > the bootmanager's list, mark it bootable (and set it as default choice :-) ). > > Bye, Philipp > > P.S. The FreeBSD-Installation asks you (after the partitioning, I think), > whether you want to have a bootmanager. You have to choose "don't touch it" > here. Another big gotcha: if your disk has more than 1024 cylinders, beware. While it is perfectly reasonable to have a partition extend beyond that limit, and while you can boot FreeBSD off such a partition as long as the root FS resides whithin the first 1024 cylinders, that stupid boot manager won't let you enter that partition into the menue, because it thinks, it extends past cylinder 1024 so you can't boot off it ... :-( Patrick