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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help w/ booteasy
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:41:32 -0700
Organization: Andreas Klemm, 41469 Neuss, Germany
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Marco Temaner wrote:
> 
> I performed the following procedure:
> 
> Install WindowsNT 3.51 on lone IDE drive.  No problem, works fine.
> Install DOS 6.22 and FreeBSD on a *different* lone IDE drive.
> Install booteasy on DOS/FreeBSD drive. I am able to choose between OSs.
> Make DOS/FreeBSD drive the master and WindowsNT drive the slave.
> Run bootinst.  It sees the HPFS partition and claims to install
> successfully.
> 
> So now DOS works fine, FreeBSD works fine, but when I hit the "disk2" option
> and then "F1" for HPFS, the computer freezes.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA.
> 

You need to install Booteasy on *both* drives. That way it can fool the 
Macroslop OSes (such as NT) into being willing to boot from the second 
drive.
-- 

Ken

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