Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 17:36:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Troy Settle <rewt@i-Plus.net> Cc: Gordon Wang <syracuse@tpts4.seed.net.tw>, Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD + another OS Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970607173335.3809A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706071714.NAA01264@radford.i-plus.net>
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On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Troy Settle wrote: > From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> > >On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Gordon Wang wrote: > > > >> Dear Sir > >> I have 2 hard disks. The first one is for win95. > >> The second one have 2 partitions-dos and freebsd. > >> Can I just put the boot manager in the 1st hard disk only? > > > >yes. that's what you're supposed to do. > > No, if you have FreeBSD on the 2nd disk, you need the boot manager on > both disks. The first one to get you to the second one, the second > one to get you to FreeBSD. I think this is true with booteasy, but not with the other boot manager that comes on the cd--osbs or whatever it's called. Nor is this true with the OS/2 boot manager, or the (identical) IBM boot manager that comes with Partition Magic. Annelise
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