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From: jhf@cis.ufl.edu (James Falkner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: retro-fit of boot manager had problems
Date: 13 Jun 1996 01:31:19 GMT
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So I installed the booteasy onto the freebsd drive (drive 0) and the
win95 drive (drive 1). So I reboot, and get the usual:
F1 FreeBSD
F5 disk 2
so I press F1 and freebsd boots fine. So I reboot and press F5 and get:
F1 Dos
F5 disk 1
so I press F1 to (hopefully) boot to win95 but I get "Invalid system disk.
Replace disk and press a key". Even though I transferred to the win95 disk's
boot manager, when I pressed F1 it seemed to try and boot off disk 0 (the
freebsd disk) because I could hear it try that drive. So it is apparently NOT
attempting to boot off drive 1 (the win95 drive). It should be (at least
theoretically) possible to boot from disk 1, right? I checked the win95
drive and the partition is marked active and is bootable (because when I
have that drive as the only drive in the system it boots fine). So whats up
with that?
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