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Date:      Fri, 02 Jul 1999 17:43:50 +0200
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>
To:        Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
Cc:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <377CDE36.19BD1753@cdsec.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907021107080.24927-100000@cdsec.com>

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Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>         The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> booting windoze OS's from other disks.  All you need to do is set the "disk
> id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
> the only thing that MS doesn't do correctly whe installing the OS on the
> non-primary disk.  I used to do this a long time ago to boot FreeBSD of the
> "C" drive and the other stuff off of "second C" drive.

I'll try that this weekend. Preumably I can just do this under FreeBSD
using fdisk?

> --
> [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ]

Kewel company name!

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