Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:11:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems/questions about boot blocks Message-ID: <199811122211.OAA01052@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:50:39 EST." <19981112165039.32105@ican.net>
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> I'm having some problems setting up my machine to dual boot between FreeBSD > and Win98. This belongs on -questions. I've moved it there. > Specifics: > > In the machine, there are two 2gig drives hooked up to the onboard ahc > controller (its an ASUS P2B-S board). I've installed 3.0-RELEASE onto > the first drive (ID 0), and I've formatted and sys'd the second drive (ID 1) > with win98. > > Problem is, that no matter what I've tried, I havent been unable to get the > machine to boot from the win98 disk. DOS won't boot from anything other than the active partition on the first disk in your system, unless you have something like the IBM boot manager (from OS/2 or Partition Magic) or System Commander installed. > Would using the new boot0 bootblocks help? How would I get them installed? No. See the -current list archives. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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