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Date:      Sat, 03 Jul 1999 12:12:01 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199907031912.MAA01095@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jul 1999 01:30:38 MDT." <199907030730.BAA23514@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <377CBE28.F3D4E15A@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes:
> : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number
> : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine
> : just don't cut it either, unfortunately.
> 
> I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his IDE drive, or Win95
> on his SCSI drive.  No, it isn't an option to swap them, so the SCSI
> drive winds up being 'D'.  The only way he can boot Win95 is to
> completely disable the IDE drive from the BIOS' point of view :-(.
> 
> Would osbs solve this problem, or would he have to take a look at
> LILO?

Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.

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