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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:12:58 +0100
From:      HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@faf.disney.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual boot with FreeBSD/Solaris using booteasy
Message-ID:  <369B667A.4DCBFA9C@telspace.alcatel.fr>
References:  <99011209114504.19703@snoopy>

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Hello,

To use Booteasy as a general-purpose boot manager, you have to install
it on both disks (wd0 and wd1)

	TfH

Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> 
> I am trying to setup my system to dual boot FreeBSD 3.0 and Solaris 7
> (SunOS 5.7).  I am using booteasy from 3.0
> 
> Both the OSes are on their own IDE disk with FreeBSD being on wd0s1
> and Solaris on wd1s1.
> 
> Now /stand/sysinstall sees the Solaris partition as a linux_swap but
> when booteasy starts up, it only presents me with
> 
> F1      FreeBSD
> 
> and does not display the second choice.
> 
> Do I need to use another boot manager?
> 
> TIA
> 
> - Jim Pirzyk
> 
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> System Administrator, Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida          _'\<,_
> at Disney MGM Studios                                               (*)/ (*)
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