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From: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95
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Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,
 Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:

> 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.

We have a bunch of cool tools in

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/

like bootinst.exe, alternative boot managers etc. etc.

//Marcin