Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:13:43 -0400 (EDT) From: lrios <lrios@ziplink.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420121224.2562C-100000@zip1.ziplink.net> In-Reply-To: <199804201558.IAA00554@dingo.cdrom.com>
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So if I were to place Windows on my first IDE and BSD on my second drive
will boot easy boot both??
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Is there a way to boot windows (on a seperate disk) from FreeBSD's
> > booteasy?? It seems to recognize the 2nd disk but will not boot from it.
> > Any help would be appreciated....
>
> MS-DOS does not support being booted from anything other than BIOS disk
> 0x80 (the first disk in the system).
>
> I believe that a number of boot managers (eg. System Commander) support
> working around this defect. Alternatively, you can try patching the
> boot record at the beginning of the MS-DOS partition by hand - search
> for 0x80, and replace with 0x81. Do it one at a time; there are likely
> to be several 0x80 bytes, but only one is of interest.
>
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