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From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:

> I've been playing around with trying to set one only slice as active to
> make the loader boot it, but it appears that doesn't actually work.
> boot0cfg would cover half of the use case (switching from FreeBSD back to
> Win95), but I'm not sure how I could do the original switch from Win95 to
> FreeBSD.

For this you must use any fdisk-like dos utility can change active
partiton mark. Sorry, I am currently don't have neir Win95 or DOS for
advice and/or test. As I remember this utilitys must be exist.

May this article help you to automate fdisk from Win95 http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm