Date: 21 Apr 1998 19:56:52 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: lrios <lrios@ziplink.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Message-ID: <xzp7m4jjbx7.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:58:07 -0700" References: <199804201558.IAA00554@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes: > > 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). It will (should) work if BootEasy sets DX to the number of the drive DOS is being booted from (0x81 in this case). I wrote an OS loader once which could boot DOS from arbitrary drives, I'll see if I can dig up the code. Modifying the DOS boot sector should not be necessary. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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