Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:41:34 -0500 From: dh2@netwalk.com (Randall Hopper) To: ahill@interconnect.com.au (Anthony Hill) Cc: shawn@computerstopusa.com (Shawn Ramsey), cforsyth@ismi.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple os Message-ID: <Mutt.19970102094134.dh2@user.netwalk.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970102162229.1289B-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au>; from Anthony Hill on Jan 2, 1997 16:32:46 %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970101174501.8205B-100000@luke.cpl.net> <Pine.BSI.3.91.970102162229.1289B-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au>
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Anthony Hill:
|On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote:
|
|> > Does freebsd come with a bootloader that can be used to operate freebsd,
|> > DOS, and WIN95 all entirely separately?
|>
|> Yes.
|>
|> Although I don't know why you would _want_ to run Win95. :)
|
|Ummm - I'm not sure that booteasy is upto booting between DOS, Win95 and
|FreeBSD. I always had problems using it with more than 1 primary DOS
|partition. However in the tools directory there is a boot manager called
|osbs which is very powerful, and CAN boot from a second hard disk, an
|extended DOS partition, or any of the common unices
|
|At the moment, I have a system with 300 MB Win95, 140MB DOS 6, and 440MB
|FreeBSD 2.1.5 built using 2 IDE hard disks and managed with osbs, and it all
|works fine.
Booteasy will boot just fine between DOS, Win95, and FreeBSD. It'll
give you a menu very similar to:
F1...DOS
F2...FreeBSD
F5...Second Disk
(FreeBSD will be on your second disk if that's where you put it -- hit F5
to get to a similar menu for the second disk). If you select DOS, you'll
get the Win '95 boot menu. Select "1...Normal" to go to Win'95 as usual,
and select "8...Previous version of DOS" to go to DOS outside of Win '95.
This isn't from intuition. I just reverified that this works as I
describe. My msdos.sys/.w40 file is attached below for your perusal.
However, I normally run OS-BS 2.0Beta8 (OSBS20B8.EXE from the ports
collection) a much nicer boot manager that's more configurable and
flexible. You can configure which options appear, what they're called,
what the timeouts will be, etc. And there's no chained menu for partitions
on a second disk -- its all one convenient menu. I can even opt to boot
off my SCSI ZIP Drive with it.
You might give both BootEasy and OSBS20B8 a shot and see which you
prefer. For BootEasy, yank:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/bootinst.exe
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/boot.bin
For OS-BS 2.0Beta8, pull:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/osbsbeta.exe
Run these from "real" DOS, not Windoze '95.
Also, related to your multiple primary DOS partitions, my
understanding is that there's a fundamental limitation in DOS for one
primary bootable DOS partition -- so that's a separate issue from the
booting DOS/'95/FreeBSD. That's part of the reason '95 piggy-backs on old
DOS in the first place. Nothing stopping you from having a primary on all
your disks (I do this) but always boot off the one on the first disk.
Randall Hopper
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