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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com>
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To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: Help with Multi-boot and FreeBSD
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> Date:          Sat, 30 Aug 1997 17:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From:          Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
> To:            "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com>
> Cc:            Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>,
> freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject:       Re: Help with
> Multi-boot and FreeBSD

> > DOS/Win95 must boot from the first partition on the first hard
> > disk.  A small DOS partition would work, but you'd have to
> > reinstall fbsd.  The easiest way would most likely be to switch
> > the master/slave jumpers and make wd0 wd1 etc.
> > 
> > Win95 will boot then.  Use sysinstall from your fbsd installation
> > disk or download booteasy from www.freebsd.org and change the MBR
> > info so you can boot fbsd.
> 
> Dos will boot from a second hard drive, if the first drive has a
> partition unrecognizable by DOS. It just needs to be on C:, I
> imagine Win95 is the same way. (of course you need a boot manager to
> do this)
> 

Are you sure about this?  I was under the impression that the
*only* MS OS that could boot from a non-primary disk was NT and that 
DOS required the first primary partition on the first bootable disk, 
boot manager or not.

If you're right then someone should give Doug Lo some different
advice...

Riley

> > > I have installed FreeBSD and windows 95.  My problem is that I
> > > can't get to Windows 95..
> > > 
> > > Allow me to explain:
> > > 
> > > I have Windows 95 on drives wd1.
> > >
> > > I have installed FreeBSD to drive wd0.
> > >
> > > I am having trouble booting to it even though i have installed the
> > > Boot Manager from FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > Could someone help?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Doug.