Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:50:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Dott. Davide Tome'" <davide@tome.it> Cc: FreeBSD Support <support@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970804194938.6856E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199708031910.VAA19546@bigbang.tome.it>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Dott. Davide Tome' wrote: > Hi, > I have this configuration: > > IDE Controller N. 1: > Master: FreeBSD System (MBR) - 1,2 Mb > Slave: IDE CD-ROM > IDE Conroller N. 2: > Master: Windows 95 system disk - 402 Mb > Slave: Windows 95 data disk - 1,6 Mb > > Now I'd like to choose the system to run from the > FreeBSD boot manager, but when I start the PC > it says to me that there is only FreeBSD (F1) > and the other disks seems to be not available. > Now I have to disable the FreeBSD disk in the > bios configuration to boot Windows 95. > > How can I make the Windows 95 disk visible > to the FreeBSD Boot Manager ? I bet your IDE CDROM is claiming to be a bootable disk so it gobbles up the second of the two BIOS numbers. You'll need to swap your Windows disk and your CDROM. Whether FreeBSD will continue to detect your cdrom is another matter. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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