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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz!srodgers From: srodgers@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz () Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: can OS/2 boot manager boot FreeBSD? Date: 8 Nov 1993 02:07:56 GMT Organization: The University of Waikato Lines: 80 Message-ID: <2bk9ls$12fb@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz> References: <1993Nov5.011523.6797@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <2bcegu$hlf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1993Nov6.113121.801@cc.ic.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Jens Tingleff (jensting@ic.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <2bcegu$hlf@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: : > If I remember correctly, OS/2's boot manager requires some hacking in order : > for it to recognize the FreeBSD partition as a 'valid' partition. : > : > Since os-bs works fine, why not stick with it. The problem lies in OS/2, : > not FreeBSD. : I got OS/2 2.1 bootmanager to boot FreeBSD without a single glitch!. I tried : using the old version of os-bs, but that wouldn't boot OS/2 from an extended : partition. I tried a silly setup with a DOS primary partition, two OS/2 : partitions (both logical drives in one extended partition) and FreeBSD in one : primary partition. After some grief (not least because OS/2 wouldn't install to a : logical drive *until* I installed OS/2 boot manager), I started from scratch, : using OS/2 FDISK, making first an OS/2 bootmanager partition, then a 4 MB DOS : boot partition, then an extended partition for two OS/2 logical drives and : finally left the rest blank for FreeBSD. I then installed FreeBSD (which found : the last empty chunk with not problems) and finally added the FreeBSD partition : to OS/2 bootmanager. NO PROBLEMS! : So, contrary to popular opinion, OS/2 bootmanager is not completely broken (for : me that is; standard disclaimers apply!) : Jens : -- : Mr Jens Tingleff, M.Sc.EE. PhD student at : Imperial College, Dept of EE, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BT, England : jensting@ic.ac.uk or jensting@dinghy.ee.ic... (used to be jensting@diku.dk) : "You're about as 'fatale' as an after-dinner mint!" 'Cabaret' Same here not a problem. Steve Rodgers University of Waikato