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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:33:52 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95
Message-ID:  <20150409113352.GI8220@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1504091112040.15202@z.fncre.vasb>
References:  <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150409080938.GC1394@zxy.spb.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1504091112040.15202@z.fncre.vasb>

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On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:13:58AM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been playing around with trying to set one only slice as active to
> > > make the loader boot it, but it appears that doesn't actually work.
> > > boot0cfg would cover half of the use case (switching from FreeBSD back to
> > > Win95), but I'm not sure how I could do the original switch from Win95 to
> > > FreeBSD.
> > 
> > For this you must use any fdisk-like dos utility can change active
> > partiton mark. Sorry, I am currently don't have neir Win95 or DOS for
> > advice and/or test. As I remember this utilitys must be exist.
> 
> We have a bunch of cool tools in
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/

pfdisk may be nice.
Oh, unzip from base system (and tar) don't support implode metod!

> like bootinst.exe, alternative boot managers etc. etc.
> 
> //Marcin



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