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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!not-for-mail From: Norbert Grundmann <grundman@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OS2 Boot Manager with FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:21:25 +0100 Organization: Technical University of Aachen, Germany Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3332A775.2C02@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <333200f1.183330601@news.gte.net> <5gtgl0$c0s$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <01bc35de$76b95300$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: klee.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4c) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37459 Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > 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 ...but in most cases the controller has a logical translation to break the >1024 cylinders into less and greater ones. So you have no problems at all. I installed FreeBSD, OS/2, MSDOS and some other systems on different disks of my host and have had no problems to start them, even on a 2GB disk with more than 1024 cylinders. N. Grundmann EMail: grundman@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de