From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 15:00:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D260016A4CF for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl390.iae.nl [212.61.63.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B476B43D4C for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from dual (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i4DLvBLE074084; Thu, 13 May 2004 23:57:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <03a101c43935$50bbc770$471b3dd4@dual> From: "Willem Jan Withagen" To: "Darryl Okahata" References: <200405132128.OAA03408@mina.soco.agilent.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:57:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on large disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:00:45 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl Okahata" > > Although I see your point, I need/want a selector which understands the fact > > that > > the slice on which the bootcode is is at the far, far end of the disk. > > ASnd from what I gather, this will just replace the selector code which norma > > lly > > lives in the MBR??? > > Yes, but this MBR boot sector understands how to locate and load > the boot code "at the far end of the disk", if packet mode is enabled > (and if your motherboard BIOS supports packet mode, which most modern > motherboards should). But MBR is where things like booteasy and grub also live?? So that functionality is lost. Or is boot0 called by booteasy/grub? If not then this does not fullfill the requirements that I want a selector at start time. And it is not very clear to me that this would allow me to boot win 2k and/or win 64XP. Next to having tried it superfluously, and not getting it to work. It kept getting to booteasy. But that very well could be pilot error since I did not spent too much time on it --WjW