Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:20:38 +0000 From: "Tom Smith" <ace@castle.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions about boot manager Message-ID: <199606140023.UAA18514@lance.castle.net>
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Hi, here's a rundown of the config I'm trying to use with my hard disks. DISK 1: 547MB IDE with BIOS translating geometry (no software trans) Win95 on there. DISK 2: 255MB, no trans necessary, empty, want FreeBSD on it. I want to devote the whole 255MB to FreeBSD (swap+a root partition). This is on the 2nd physical disk. Now, I know the boot manager would have to go on DISK1, but I can't seem to find a stright answer about whether the boot manager will like this. It would need to boot DISK1 and DISK2 (2 OS's). The reason I'm wondering is because I've heard of problems with large hard disks. I seem to be in a sort of unique situation in that I'm not installing the OS to the large hard disk, but the boot manager has to go there. My question is if the boot manager will work right. It would need to boot Win95 on the large disk (the whole disk) and FreeBSD on the small disk. Any ideas? -Tom ace@castle.net P.S. Please reply directly, I'm not on the mailing list.
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