Re: Bad Magic with WinNT (2000)

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

You are correct, the boot process is limited to the 8G limit of the
OpenBSD boot loader code or the system's BIOS, whichever is more
restrictive.  No boot manager will change that -- the problem is
getting /bsd loaded into RAM, which is done by biosboot (the Partition
Boot Record) and /boot.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#14.7

Nick.

Flinn Mueller wrote:
> 
> I'm no sure this works either...I have my partition starting at around 15gb,
> and tried using PQ Boot Magic 7 on it, but it doesn't seem to work, Missing
> Operating System.
> I can install OBSD all day, but it doesn't seem to want to work after that
> 8gb.  I know that I had had it around the same spot, but I installed it
> before any other partitions, and everything worked fine with OSBS, but I'm
> also having some troubles with this problem.  I'm stuck inside the box
> looking out of the windows until this weekend when I have more time...
> I know SysCommander had a special option to install a new os, should I try
> using that?
> > I'm not sure you can boot OpenBSD from a partition that far out of the
> disk, 28GB. You should've created a 25-50MB fat16 partition and put a boot
> mgr on it like System Commander.

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