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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!i-2000.com!usenet From: freyes@i-2000.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd with OS/2 boot manager? Date: 15 Aug 1995 22:27:14 GMT Organization: I-2000 Inc. - Internet Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <40r702$l2d@i-2000.com> References: <40ivel$84@rigel.infinet.com> <40jqul$pnk@cedar.mr.net> <40r02l$hra@rigel.infinet.com> Reply-To: freyes@i-2000.com NNTP-Posting-Host: freyes.dh.i-2000.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <40r02l$hra@rigel.infinet.com>, macgyver@infinet.com (Wilson Liaw) writes: >In article <40jqul$pnk@cedar.mr.net>, Steve Rose <srose@mr.net> wrote: >>macgyver@infinet.com (Wilson Liaw) wrote: >> >>>Can OS/2's boot manager be used to boot FreeBSD? >>Works fine, I use boot manager to start FreeBSD, OS/2, and NT. > >how did you do it? If you don't have boot manager: Create a 1 MB partition on your first drive (not sure if it would work on a secondary) using Fdisk. While in Fdisk press enter while on top of the partition and select install Boot manager. If you don't have space for the 1MB partition you can either backup all your data on that particular drive and re-partition or you can get a program called partition Magic to help you with this. If you already have boot manager: Create a partition before the 1023 cylinder of one of your drives, boot dos, run the install.bat from the CDrom. From the Fdisk on Freebsd mark the partition bootable. Do the label part. Do not install FreeBsd boot manager, select the standard MBR. Continue with the rest of the Freebsd installation. After the computer re-starts and you select OS2 go into fdisk and press enter while the highlighted line is over your BSD partition. Select Add to boot manager.