From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 10:58:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28346 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28044 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:57:02 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id TAA27879; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:56:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:56:52 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: lrios , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows References: <199804201558.IAA00554@dingo.cdrom.com> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Apr 1998 19:56:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:58:07 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Smith writes: > > Is there a way to boot windows (on a seperate disk) from FreeBSD's > > booteasy?? It seems to recognize the 2nd disk but will not boot from it. > > Any help would be appreciated.... > MS-DOS does not support being booted from anything other than BIOS disk > 0x80 (the first disk in the system). It will (should) work if BootEasy sets DX to the number of the drive DOS is being booted from (0x81 in this case). I wrote an OS loader once which could boot DOS from arbitrary drives, I'll see if I can dig up the code. Modifying the DOS boot sector should not be necessary. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message