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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: booting default from secondary IDE-disk? Date: 3 Nov 1996 14:31:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <55iac7$jca@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3273357E.167EB0E7@inferno.phys.tue.nl> <32764F63.2781E494@kcwc.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Curt Welch <curt@kcwc.com> wrote: > I had the same problem (Windows 95 on drive 0, FreeBSD on drive 1) > and ended up creating a custom boot floppy which defaulted to wd(1,a). > > The machine boots Windows 95 by default without the floppy and > boots FreeBSD if I put the floppy in. > > I forget what I had to do to make this floppy, but as I recal, it > envolved changing C code to make a custom version of the boot > program which had different defaults. The same bootblock as on your custom floppy should also work on your FreeBSD harddisk. Simply put it there using `disklabel -B'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)