Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:57:41 +0200 From: "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> To: "Darryl Okahata" <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on large disks Message-ID: <03a101c43935$50bbc770$471b3dd4@dual> References: <200405132128.OAA03408@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl Okahata" <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> > > 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
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