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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!mcshub!flex1!todd From: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) Subject: Re: can OS/2 boot manager boot FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1993Nov8.193607.26075@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: flex1.eng.mcmaster.ca Reply-To: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University References: <2bcegu$hlf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 19:36:07 GMT Lines: 37 In article hlf@pdq.coe.montana.edu, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > In article <1993Nov5.011523.6797@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, > Todd Pfaff <todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca> wrote: > >I just tried booting FreeBSD from the OS/2 boot manager and it failed (system > >reboots when I select my entry for FreeBSD from the boot manager menu). If I > >then install os-bs, FreeBSD boot fine. > > > >Is anybody booting FreeBSD from the OS/2 boot manager? Any special magic required? > > 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 have two IDE drives and OS/2 is installed on the 2nd. The version of os-bs I'm using (1.35?) can't boot from a 2nd IDE drive (as far as I know) so I was relying on the OS/2 boot manager for that. I could get os-bs-2.0-beta and try it, but I came up with an easier solution. I have the OS/2 boot manager installed in a 1MB partition at the beginning of the 1st IDE disk (pretty standard I guess) and os-bs-1.35 installed in the master boot record. I added an entry to the os-bs boot table for OS/2 and have it boot the OS/2 boot manager partition. I configured the OS/2 boot manager to only have one entry (OS/2) and to wait 0 seconds before booting. So I can choose DOS, OS/2, or FreeBSD from the os-bs menu, and in the case of OS/2 the OS/2 BM is invoked and it boots from the 2nd IDE drive. Works great! --- Todd Pfaff \ Internet: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca Dept. of Mechanical Engineering \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22902 McMaster University \ FAX: (905) 572-7944 Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4L7 \