From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 11:08:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01897 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01866 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:08:30 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00981; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804211804.LAA00981@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Mike Smith , lrios , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Apr 1998 19:56:52 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:04:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. 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