From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 17:24:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C1337B6DC for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA38729; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008080024.RAA38729@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k In-Reply-To: from Garance A Drosihn at "Aug 7, 2000 07:04:09 pm" To: Garance A Drosihn Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:47 PM -0700 8/7/00, John Baldwin wrote: > >The latest version of boot0 should boot past the 1024 > >cylinder fine if your BIOS isn't older than 1996 or > >thereabouts. Note that the one included with 4.1 has a > >bug that may cause it to hang on some systems, though. :( > > Does the newest boot0 understand booting NTFS (Win2k) > partitions, and extended partitions (linux)? That's the > main reason I went with PowerBoot, and stick with it. > It seems that all the free boot-manager options have had > trouble with one or more of the systems I am trying to > boot up. It should boot NTFS fine. Boot managers don't have to grok file systems, they just load the first sector to a standardized location and execute it. Extended partitions are harder. There isn't an actual standard way of treating them that I know of. Most of them don't have actual bootable code in them, for example. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message