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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 1997 17:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com>
Cc:        Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with Multi-boot and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970830174220.3414A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708302300.QAA12782@train.tgci.com>

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> DOS/Win95 must boot from the first partition on the first hard disk.  
> A small DOS partition would work, but you'd have to reinstall fbsd.  
> The easiest way would most likely be to switch the master/slave 
> jumpers and make wd0 wd1 etc.
> 
> Win95 will boot then.  Use sysinstall from your fbsd installation 
> disk or download booteasy from www.freebsd.org and change the MBR 
> info so you can boot fbsd.

Dos will boot from a second hard drive, if the first drive has a partition
unrecognizable by DOS. It just needs to be on C:, I imagine Win95 is the
same way. (of course you need a boot manager to do this)








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