Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:07:54 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Jim King <king@sstar.com>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991105105730.28840B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <199911051534.HAA02236@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I did: wipe out FreeBSD > > > partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end > > > of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the > > > front of the disk. Now both FreeBSD and Win98 boot OK. > > > > hun?! what about the widely distributed belief that the win9x partition has > > to be the first partition on the disk? > > You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any > primary partition there. > > We just find out that to make Linux and FreeBSD coexist, we must connect > the hard drive to the primary controller. Our adminstrator says BIOS > can only boot from primary controller and FreeBSD relies on BIOS to boot > (I wonder with new boot loader code, this limitation has already been > removed if there was). Linux does not have this requirement. Is this > true? Also, Linux can boot from a floppy. Can FreeBSD does similar things (boot from a floppy and then use data on the hard drive)? Are these stuff explained in Grey Lehey's book (I got a copy now). -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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