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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:47:43 -0400
From:      "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com>
To:        Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de
Cc:        wayneclubin@yahoo.com, system@pathfinder.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: Dual-booting win98 and FreeBSD problem
Message-ID:  <1028148463.3011ee0jud@myrealbox.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To: "Wayne Lubin" <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>, <system@pathfinder.gr>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:18:57 +0200
Subject: Re: Dual-booting win98 and FreeBSD problem

Hi,

> > I have installed FreeBSD 4.4 and Win98SE each on its
> > own disk.
> > (FreeBSD on /dev/ad0s1a and Win98SE on /dev/ad1s1 ).
> >
> > I have also installed the FreeBSD boot manager on
> > ad0.
> >
> > (ad0 is the primary master and ad1 is the primary
> > slave)
> >
> > When the computer boots, I get this prompt:
> >
> > F1      FreeBSD
> > F5      Drive 1
> >
> > When I press F1, FreeBSD boots nice and well.
> >
> > But, when I press F5, then instead of win98, FreeBSD
> > boots again (nice
> > and well).

Standard windows always tries to boot from the first partition on the
first disk of the primary IDE channel. Just swap your disks so that win
is ad0 and FreeBSD ad1 and adopt the boot process accordingly (actually
do this first, otherwise have a look on the relevant manpages for the
syntax to call disks at the bootlader).

I heard of some boot managers, who should be able to boot win from the
second disk with some tricks, but can't remember which ones. First
guess: Have a look at www.xosl.org .
[snip]
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Grub in the FreeBSD ports (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub) 
will also do this - look in grub's documentation under 
the "map" command.

Jud


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