Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:09:10 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP Message-ID: <3B0C5F36.FAD1F749@urx.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105231707160.18879-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>
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Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > At Wed, 23 May 2001 it looks like Kent Stewart composed: > > KS--> > KS--> > KS-->Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > KS-->> > KS-->> At Wed, 23 May 2001 it looks like Jason La composed: > KS-->> > KS-->> JL-->I have a question about triple booting with win98, win2k, > KS-->> JL-->and freebsd. > KS-->> JL--> > KS-->> > KS-->> I've had success with using the following, the only difference may > KS-->> be that I already had windows and Linux installed, the key for me > KS-->> was having ONLY "primary" partitions and in my case the 4th one > KS-->> was for FreeBSD and the first cylinder of the (4th > KS-->> primary) FreeBSD partition was well above the 1024th > KS-->> cylinder. That's because I'm using Linux's LILO as the bootloader. > KS--> > KS-->One of the advantages of W2K on the MS side is that it allows 4 primary > KS-->partitions and one of those can be an extended. How you arrange them is up > KS-->to you. > > <humbly_snipped> > > ...hmm, I had a strange problem where I had the following, in > both scenerios all partitions remained the same size. It appeared > that LILO could not boot FreeBSD "over" or "behind" an extended > partition: > > [lilo in mbr] > > This would not boot. > > (A) primary = windows > (B) primary = Linux SWAP > (C) extended = Linux partitions > (D) primary = FreeBSD-4.2 (slices inside) > > This would boot. (no changes in partition sizes) > > (A) primary = windows > (B) primary = Linux SWAP > (C) primary = Linux / (all in one partition) > (D) primary = FreeBSD-4.2 (slices inside) I had a similar problem. I wanted to add Linux but if FreeBSD couldn't be the 2nd partiton and still boot Linux, then, Linux was going to be removed. I still don't have a Linux system. I had to have the FreeBSD / partition located in front of 8.4 GB since I was installing 4.0. I have two systems with the large freebsd slice located after the dos extended partition and two more that have the freebsd slice in front of the extended partition. I have a version of Windows 2000 booting from the extended partition in 2 of the 4. I only have 3 partitions on these drives. They are typically 30GB drives. I use NTLDR to boot FreeBSD. I use /boot/boot1 to actually do the boot. To do this, you have to copy boot1 onto your C-drive as bootsect.bsd and add that to the NT boot.ini. NTLDR has no problem booting FreeBSD regardless of the relative position on the HD. I have a convention that no OS goes on my C-drive. It is strictly for booting and data transfer. It has been very painless to setup and use. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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