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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.reference.com!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!news 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 Organization: NAS Lines: 26 Message-ID: <320E6BAB.3F54BC7E@diac.com> References: <4u53gb$6ik@mambo.cs.wustl.edu> <4ug4ep$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <320D85E5.41C67EA6@diac.com> <4ul76c$nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: wanker.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) 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