Re: Daily digest, Issue 3641 (37 messages)

2015-11-25 Thread Alan Corey
re: bootable cylinder limit? >The point is that if you use Windows you must use its boot menu, and it's > easier to configure it to boot multiple OS than grub or lilo. EasyBSD > handles all the boot blocks for you. One problem is that everything is old (including me). The computers are from 2003

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3641 (37 messages)

2015-11-25 Thread Peter Kay
Yes, it is possible for grub to boot Windows. LILO too, it can even boot Xen if you use mbootpack (otherwise it doesn't support initrd). The point is that if you use Windows you must use its boot menu, and it's easier to configure it to boot multiple OS than grub or lilo. EasyBSD handles all

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3641 (37 messages)

2015-11-24 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alan Corey wrote: > re: bootable cylinder limit? > > All manner of things seem to have broken when I went from a 500 gig > drive to 1 TB, or maybe it's because I added Linux. For years I've > been using the method that used to be in the OpenBSD FAQ of using dd > t

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3641 (37 messages)

2015-11-24 Thread Alan Corey
re: bootable cylinder limit? All manner of things seem to have broken when I went from a 500 gig drive to 1 TB, or maybe it's because I added Linux. For years I've been using the method that used to be in the OpenBSD FAQ of using dd to write out the first sector of the partition you want to boot