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From: Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation Problem (2 hard disks with Win95 & FreeBSD)
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:24:27 -0700
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.com> wrote:
> 
>>> that you want a boot manager.  This way, it will be placed on both
>>> disks which is necessary to toggle between them.
>> Are you sure you want it on both disks?  I had a real problem with that
> I am sure.  That's the only way how it can toggle back and forth
> between both disks.

I had these problems about 6 months ago running Win95 (wd0) and FreeBSD (wd1).

> The FreeBSD biosboot code only fails for `weird' configurations ...
> All these cases are covered by the most recent boot code in that you are 
> allowed to establish an arbitrary mapping between BIOS drive numbers and
> BSD disk names / unit number

COOL! I'll take a look.

> > BTW - I also found that when I added a third bootable disk that selecting
> Sorry, we are not NetBSD. 

My apologies, I forgot which group I was reading.

Regards,
Paul