Re: Bad Magic with WinNT (2000)

[Al Lipscomb <arl@q7.net>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:05:17AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> 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


One way you may be able to get something to work is to boot OpenBSD under
something like VMWare. This will create a virtual machine for OpenBSD to 
run under. I find that this works well for me as I can have both operating 
systems up at the same time.      





> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> http://www.holland-consulting.net/
> 

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