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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:21:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Russ Heibel <heibelr@genias.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Solaris & Win95
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904221120270.7869-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BE8B4B.9E1D9720@heibelr.i2k.net>

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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Russ Heibel wrote:

> I am trying to add a 2nd HDD to my computer to hold Solaris so I can
> run either Win95 from HDD1 or Solaris from HDD2. The only way I have
> been able to do this is to connect only one of the hard drives up in
> the system at a time. This is a terrible nuisance. I have tried
> Partition Magic with absolutely no luck. I can find no way for it to
> allow me to boot Solaris. Will FreeBSD allow me to satisfy this need?
> If so, can someone help me find the steps to go through to do this and
> tell me how I can get hold of FreeBSD?

Hm, from personal experience the Solaris bootloader is actually pretty
good. I'm surprised you're having such a problem.

FreeBSD's boot-time selector should handle this with no problem.  What
disk configuration do you have?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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