From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 20 09:15:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26596 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ziplink.net (relay-0.ziplink.net [206.15.168.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26452 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:15:15 GMT (envelope-from lrios@ziplink.net) Received: from zip1.ziplink.net (zip1.ziplink.net [206.15.168.18]) by ziplink.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA15122; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:13:43 -0400 (EDT) From: lrios To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows In-Reply-To: <199804201558.IAA00554@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk So if I were to place Windows on my first IDE and BSD on my second drive will boot easy boot both?? ______ __ /___ / / / __ / /(@)__ / (@)__ / /__ lrios@ziplink.net / // / _ \/ / / _ \/ '_/ / //_/ .__/_/_/_//_/_/\_\ NASA TEAM / /__/_/___________________ `He who dies with the most toys win!` /___________________________ 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. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message