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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
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<!DOCTYPE BOOK PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN">
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<book>
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<!-- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/multi-os/article.sgml,v 1.6 1999/09/06 06:52:37 peter Exp $ -->
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<!DOCTYPE ARTICLE PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V3.1-Based Extension//EN">
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<article>
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<bookinfo>
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<bookbiblio>
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<artheader>
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<title>Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<email>rhh@ct.picker.com</email>, and Jordan K. Hubbard
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<email>jkh@time.cdrom.com</email></para></abstract>
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</bookbiblio>
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</bookinfo>
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</artheader>
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<chapter>
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<sect1>
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<title>Overview</title>
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<para>Most people can't fit these operating systems together
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called Partition Magic, which lets you size and delete partitions
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without consequence.</para>
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</chapter>
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</sect1>
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<chapter id="ch2">
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<sect1 id="ch2">
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<title>Overview of Boot Managers</title>
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<para>These are just brief descriptions of some of the different boot
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FAT32 also modifies the traditional FAT boot sector and allocation
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table, making it incompatible with some boot managers.</para></note>
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</chapter>
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</sect1>
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<chapter id="ch3">
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<sect1 id="ch3">
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<title>A Typical Installation</title>
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<para>Let's say I have two large EIDE hard drives, and I want to
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</procedure>
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</chapter>
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</sect1>
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<chapter id="ch4">
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<sect1 id="ch4">
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<title>Special Considerations</title>
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<para>Most operating systems are very picky about where and how they are
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as FAT). Linux can read and write to most file systems. Got that?
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I hope so.</para>
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</chapter>
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</sect1>
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<chapter id="ch5">
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<sect1 id="ch5">
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<title>Examples</title>
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<para><emphasis>(section needs work, please send your example to
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<para>FreeBSD+Linux+Win95: (see <xref linkend="ch3">)</para>
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</chapter>
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</sect1>
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<chapter id="sources">
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<sect1 id="sources">
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<title>Other Sources of Help</title>
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<para>There are many <ulink
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procedure, available in the kernel source distribution (it unpacks to
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<ulink URL="file:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD">file:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.386BSD</ulink>.</para>
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</chapter>
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</sect1>
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<chapter>
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<sect1>
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<title>Technical Details</title>
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<para><emphasis>(Contributed by Randall Hopper,
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unfamiliar and then start reading.</para>
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<sect1>
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<sect2>
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<title>Disk Primer</title>
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<para>Three fundamental terms are used to describe the location of
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<para>Ok, enough terminology. We're talking about booting
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here.</para>
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</sect1>
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</sect2>
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<sect1 id="booting">
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<sect2 id="booting">
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<title>The Booting Process</title>
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<para>On the first sector of your disk (Cyl 0, Head 0, Sector 1)
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the first probed disk. The boot manager you will install will be hooked into
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the MBR on this first probed hard disk that we've just described.</para>
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</sect1>
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</sect2>
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<sect1 id="limits">
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<sect2 id="limits">
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<title>Booting Limitations and Warnings</title>
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<para>Now the interesting stuff that you need to watch out for.</para>
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<sect2>
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<sect3>
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<title>The dreaded 1024 cylinder limit and how BIOS LBA helps</title>
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<para>The first part of the booting process is all done through the
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FreeBSD existing on one of my hard disks above the 1024th physical
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cylinder, and both operating systems boot fine, thanks to BIOS LBA).</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect3>
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<sect2>
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<sect3>
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<title>Boot Managers and Disk Allocation</title>
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<para>Another gotcha to watch out when installing boot managers is
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect3>
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<sect2>
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<sect3>
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<title>What if your machine won't boot?</title>
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<para>At some point when installing boot managers, you might leave the
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then boot DOS (and DOS only) off the hard drive. Alternatively, just
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re-run your boot manager installation program off a bootable floppy.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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</book>
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</article>
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