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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:58:07 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        lrios <lrios@ziplink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free BSD and Windows 
Message-ID:  <199804201558.IAA00554@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:48:35 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420114545.2562B-100000@zip1.ziplink.net> 

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> 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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\\  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



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