Re: bad magic on boot attempt

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:29:51PM -0800, rob wrote:

> Well, here  it is.  I think  I know the answer  already, I can't
> have Openbsd / so far out on the disk.  So I think I am screwed.
> Maybe I  could shrink Win2k  by 200M and  put / right  after it.
> Here is the fdisk output:

Most Unices are  quite happy with /'s of ~100  Mbytes. Put small /
partitions for  them at  the start  of the  drive, then  your evil
nasty smelly  puking operating system  next, and then the  rest of
your Unix partitions.

Doing this without running out of partitions might be a challenge,
but OpenBSD (and I'm nearly certain  FreeBSD) can be forced to put
their slices at arbitrary locations on the disk.

Or...why not just  get another hard drive (or  more)? Use the BIOS
to control which  one to boot off of (no  boot manager confustion)
and  no extra  headaches for  partitioning. Disks are  cheap these
days. I bet  you'd have no trouble  finding a 2 Gbyte  disk in the
nearest $5 bin.

b&

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