From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 2 10: 0:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941DE14FD7 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25152; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:58:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:58:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Graham Wheeler Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <377CDE36.19BD1753@cdsec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > 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? You cannot do it using fdisk. I tonly manipulates the parition table poriton of the MBR. The "bios device" number is in portion before the partition table. I hesitate to just give an offset and say poke away, so I'd look for a disk editing tool like Norton Disk Editor. That's what I used when I last did this a few years ago. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message