Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:04:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, lrios <lrios@ziplink.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Message-ID: <199804211804.LAA00981@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Apr 1998 19:56:52 %2B0200." <xzp7m4jjbx7.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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. I've done this before. 8) Unless Microsoft changed their sector-0 bootloader (which is possible), it still has 0x80 hardcoded. The symptoms would tend to indicate that they haven't - FreeBSD boots correctly from the second drive using the value in %dx, but Windows does not. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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