Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:43:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Eli Lazich <elazich@loopback.com> Cc: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on second SCSI disk? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125104203.17289L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124165131.2351A-100000@capricorn.loopback.com>
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Eli Lazich wrote: > Have you tried 'system commander' as I believe it is called. I seem to > remember somewhere in my readings that this would do what you want. The > NT boot loader certainly won't work (been there, done that) you might be > able to get the FBSD boot loader to accept a pointer to the NT active > partition, haven't quite investigated that one thoroughly myself. Unfortunately System Commander has bugs that break the FreeBSD bootblocks (it twiddles bit 4 in the system id), and FreeBSD expects that to be 0xA5 and nothing else. SysCommander changes it to 0xB5 for some twisted reason. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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