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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!itchy.serv.net!jimndrws From: Jim Andrews <jimndrws@itchy.serv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: retro-fit of boot manager had problems Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:17:06 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services Lines: 36 Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960615091357.26567C-100000@itchy.serv.net> References: <4pnr17$mn0@spnode06.nerdc.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4pnr17$mn0@spnode06.nerdc.ufl.edu> On 13 Jun 1996, James Falkner wrote: > 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? > > -- Well, I hate to offer commercial solutions to problems ya got into for free, but after having a number of problems with the BSD boot manager, I shelled for a program called "System Commander." It's around $70-80, and it works PAINLESSLY. I highly recommend you getting that package. It does serious voodoo. Hope this helps... Jim Andrews