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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:43:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Eli Lazich <elazich@loopback.com>
Cc:        Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD on second SCSI disk?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125104203.17289L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971124165131.2351A-100000@capricorn.loopback.com>

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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Eli Lazich wrote:

> Have you tried 'system commander' as I believe it is called.  I seem to
> remember somewhere in my readings that this would do what you want.  The
> NT boot loader certainly won't work (been there, done that) you might be
> able to get the FBSD boot loader to accept a pointer to the NT active
> partition, haven't quite investigated that one thoroughly myself.

Unfortunately System Commander has bugs that break the FreeBSD bootblocks
(it twiddles bit 4 in the system id), and FreeBSD expects that to be 0xA5
and nothing else.  SysCommander changes it to 0xB5 for some twisted
reason.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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