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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 15:47:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more boot loader questions -- dual boot system
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905281547090.11808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990528010826.A1264@chaos.obstruction.com>

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On Fri, 28 May 1999, Guy Middleton wrote:

> I have a system with DOS and FreeBSD each installed on their own disks,
> and I'd like to be able to have it boot BSD without manual intervention,
> but can't figure out how.  I have the FreeBSD boot manager on both
> disk 0 (DOS) and disk 1 (BSD), but there seems to be no way to tell the
> boot manager on disk 0 to boot BSD from disk 1, without typing F5/F1 each
> time the machine boots.  Any ideas?

Try a boot floppy with a /boot.config of

wd(1,a)

Doug White                               
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