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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyj@train.tgci.com>
To: Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:04:07 +0000
Subject: Re: booteasy doesn't
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And, unfortunately, won't.

DOS (win95) must boot from the first partition on the first disk if I 
recall correctly.

Probably your best bet is to switch disks and make the fbsd disk the 
2nd, win95 the 1st on the 1st, and solaris the 2nd partition on the 
1st disk.

You could also make a small DOS partition on the fbsd disk, but you'd 
have to backup and reinstall fbsd.

Hope this helps,

Riley

> Date:          Tue, 8 Jul 1997 14:55:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From:          Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com>
> To:            freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:       booteasy doesn't

> i found a similar question to this in the mail archives but i didn't
> find an answer.
> 
> i have a system with two hard disks.  the first disk has freebsd, the
> second has win95 and solaris x86 (well, it only has win95 right
> now... it will have solaris soon).  i just added the second one this
> morning.
> 
> my machine boots and comes up with the boot manager:
> 
> F1... FreeBSD
> F5... disk1
> 
> so far so good.  but regardless of whether i hit F1 or F5, it boots
> freebsd off the first disk!  how do i make it actually boot the second
> disk?
> 
> -- 
> Jon Drukman      jsd@gamespot.com             SpotMedia Communications
> 	     ...I was an infinitely hot and dense dot...
> 
>