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From: "Andy [Tecc Nops]" <andy@tecc.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: dual boot pain
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:21:42 +0100
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> You use boot1 if it is on the same drive and boot0 
> for different drives. I've have always spread my 
> system across all of the drives to have each drive 
> on a separate controller for speed. My / slice has 
> always been on the same drive and I use boot1 as 
> bootsect.bsd. There were some odd things that 
> happened in 3.x that I avoided.

As in ur previous faqs on this I tried boot0 to boot
the second drive but all it apeared to do was put a
message saying "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT". Like it's says
on the tin, pressing a key did in fact reboot again!

> I would have assumed that using boot0 as bootsect.bsd 
> would have booted off of your 2nd hd. There are several 
> people that come to mind that boot off of the 2nd hd. 
> I don't remember if they had to run boot0cfg or not.

I tried various boot0cfg invokations, all failed. :(
The only way I managed to boot the second drive was
to set, in BIOS, the boot order as D,A,SCSI rather
than C,A,SCSI. This worked but I didn't want the people
using Windows have to do this to boot a machine.

> Kent

Regards
Ak


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