Potential Problems with and Limitations of Dual Boot Systems
It is possible to have a dual boot system in which you can have two (or even more) operating systems on the hard disk, and you can select which one you want at each system boot. There are some potential problems that you need to be aware of when doing this, though.
The first one is that all of the information necessary to boot FreeBSD must be located within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk. This means that either the root partition must be completely located within the first 1024 cylinders, or you can use a separate boot partition that is completely located in the first 1024 cylinders. If you choose this option, the root partition does not have to be completely located in the ...
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