Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR

[Thomas Beer]

Dear All,

another questions emerges. The NTFS XP Partition covers apprx.
the first 8,8 GB of the disk. Will there be a problem with
the BIOS 1024 Cylinder Limit or the 2GB Boot Code Boundary
if I try to install the FreeBSD bootloader, leave XP where it
is and splitt the XP partition in two 25GB partitions installing
FBSD in the second part (starting at ~ 25GB)?

Thanks Tom


> Kevin Oberman writes:
>  > [...]
>  > If you install FreeBSD, I'd suggest using BootEasy as a part of the
>  > FreeBSD install, but you can use GRUB, LILO, the NT boot tool, or
> pretty
>  > much what you prefer. I'm not sure LILO and GRUB will work or V5,
>  > though. [...]
>
> If by V5 you mean FreeBSD5, grub works just fine.  If you have a UFS2
> root partition you need to make sure that you use a new enough version
> of grub so that it can find the loader/kernel, but it's been able to
> do that for a while (the version in the ports tree works great).
>
> g.
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