"Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw_at_withagen.nl> wrote: > > 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? I believe boot0 *IS* booteasy. If you have booteasy installed, you have boot0 installed in the MBR (they are the same thing, I believe). In all probability, if you have booteasy installed, you only need to run "boot0cfg -o packet ad0" to set the bit in the MBR that tells boot0/booteasy to use packet mode when accessing the disk. Once you've done that, you should be able to boot from the FreeBSD partitions installed beyond the 8GB limit. > And it is not very clear to me that this would allow me to boot > win 2k and/or win 64XP. You do realize that both of these can blow away the MBR and replace it with Microsoft software? You might want to use Windows to load FreeBSD, instead: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER (However, I don't know if this will work with more than one bootable FreeBSD installation on the same drive.) -- Darryl Okahata darrylo_at_soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.Received on Thu May 13 2004 - 13:33:26 UTC
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