From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 27 14:55:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 24-25-220-29.san.rr.com (24-25-220-29.san.rr.com [24.25.220.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98ACC14CDE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:55:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by 24-25-220-29.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA34841; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:55:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38406163.23B94E11@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:55:31 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush Cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911051534.HAA02236@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randy Bush wrote: > > > You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any > > primary partition there. > > doh. thanks. game over. Actually in the [good|bad] old days of pre-GUI DOS you had to have something (I'm pretty sure it was command.com) on the first primary partition, or DOS would pitch a blue hissy fit when you tried to start it and it couldn't find c:\whatever. I spent many a long hour trying to sort out dos 6.22, OS/2 Warp and FreeBS 2.1.5 on my little 540 meg hard drive way back when. I've since given up on OS/2 (sigh) and neatly solved the multi-os problem with multi-scsi disks. :) The newer versions of DOS (aka windows 95/8) are more forgiving, even though IIRC the win 98 installer still tells you flat out that it won't work with a boot selector program if it detects one. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message