From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 2 8:42:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6E614F25 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:42:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00845; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:41:25 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 842; Fri Jul 2 17:41:00 1999 Message-ID: <377CDE36.19BD1753@cdsec.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 17:43:50 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: Graham Wheeler , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's > the only thing that MS doesn't do correctly whe installing the OS on the > non-primary disk. I used to do this a long time ago to boot FreeBSD of the > "C" drive and the other stuff off of "second C" drive. I'll try that this weekend. Preumably I can just do this under FreeBSD using fdisk? > -- > [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] Kewel company name! -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message