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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 2015 11:09:38 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95
Message-ID:  <20150409080938.GC1394@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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.

May this article help you to automate fdisk from Win95 http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm



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