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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:42:38 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        dk+@ua.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: HELP!!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199601061342.OAA13712@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601061115.NAA12788@dog> from "Dmitry Kohmanyuk" at Jan 6, 96 01:15:22 pm

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As Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote:
> 
> > This is the BIOS-visible part.  BSD can go beyond this, even for disks
> > where the first part must be accessible to the BIOS (like boot disks).
> 
> ooh, but when I have >=1024 c disk with non-BSD occupying the first part
> of it, I still _cannot_ boot BSD without installing some lame s/w like 
> diskmanager (which I hate to use and don't have anyway - and I have LBA
> drive and LBA IDE controller).

Do the layout like this:

	<FreeBSD root>  <OS/2>  <FreeBSD additional>

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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