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Date:               Sat, 4 May 1996 17:19:48 +0000
From:      "Franz Hollerer" <eeg@telecom.at>
To:        Anton Nossik <lamer@zaraza.bofh.org.il>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:         Re: Booting Win95+FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199605041516.RAA48200@pina1>

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Anton Nossik wrote:
> 
> I have two IDE hard disks with FreeBSD installed on master and Win95 on
> slave. Somehow, Win95 won't boot from FreeBSD boot manager - when it
> displays its options, I press F5 for disk2, on disk2 I have Win95 boot
> thingy, but it proceeds with loading FreeBSD from disk1 nevertheless...

I don't have experience with Win95, but usually this configuration
does not work with comercial products (SCO, DOS, OS/2).
The MBR of FreeBSD calls the Bootloader of Win95, but Win95
wants to boot from the first harddisk.

The following may work:
Install the FreeBSD MBR on the Win95 disk.
Then you have to edit /etc/fstab in FreeBSD. FreeBSD must
know where to find partitions. For this change wd0* to
wd1* (see below).
If you have done this use the Win95 disk as master and FreeBSD
as slave.
It would also be recommended to make a boot disk and  a fixit disk.

example for /etc/fstab:
/dev/wd1a			/		ufs	rw 1 1
/dev/wd1b			none		swap	sw 0 0
proc			/proc		procfs	rw 0 0

Franz





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