On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I did: wipe out FreeBSD
> > > partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end
> > > of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the
> > > front of the disk. Now both FreeBSD and Win98 boot OK.
> >
> > hun?! what about the widely distributed belief that the win9x partition has
> > to be the first partition on the disk?
>
> You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any
> primary partition there.
>
> We just find out that to make Linux and FreeBSD coexist, we must connect
> the hard drive to the primary controller. Our adminstrator says BIOS
> can only boot from primary controller and FreeBSD relies on BIOS to boot
> (I wonder with new boot loader code, this limitation has already been
> removed if there was). Linux does not have this requirement. Is this
> true?
Also, Linux can boot from a floppy. Can FreeBSD does similar things (boot
from a floppy and then use data on the hard drive)?
Are these stuff explained in Grey Lehey's book (I got a copy now).
-Zhihui
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