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To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us>
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Subject: Re: How to make the system boot selectable?
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Chris Coleman wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 May 1997 wujie@ciet.cn.net wrote:
> 
> > I have a IBM PC 350 P100 machine, it originally has only 1 hard disk. I
> > add the second one myself. I want my BSD runs first when boot up, so I
> > install the Windows 95 on the second one. But then I find this IBM PC
> > can't boot from the slave hard disk. It can only naturally boot from the
> > master disk!
> >
> > I saw the Easy Boot*Mgr option during the install procedure. Should I
> > install it on both hard disks to enable selectable boot?
> 
> If you install it on both hard disks it would allow you to multi-boot
> different OS's on EACH disk.  You probably only want to  install it on the
> Master disk, and install a standard MBR on the FBSD disk if it isn;t your
> Master disk. If FBSD is your Master disk, leave the Windows95 dist
> untouched.

Hm, my Win95 do not want boot from slave.

  I have had win95 and FBSD dual booting, but it has been a long
> time ago.
> 

I have such situatioon at home.


   If we have HDD with *installed, as 1-st HDD* FreeBSD,
   then boot from floppy, and Install Boot Manager on you 
    Win95 Disk.
  then you can boot FBSD, first at  -s mode to edit /etc/fstab
(s/wd0/wd1),  

>  Does this
> > option affects the Windows 95 system boot area? U know, M$ is always not
> > so stable. At this time, everytime I want to start the 95 to do some
> > word processing, I have to switch the master and slave IDE line.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >