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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!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!slugvine.demon.co.uk!slugvine.demon.co.uk!jas From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booteasy loader Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:09:56 GMT Organization: Home Message-ID: <E8C2KK.1w0@slugvine.demon.co.uk> References: <3339AEBC.786A@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38768 In article <3339AEBC.786A@earthlink.net>, Gaetan Feige <Gaetan@earthlink.net> wrote: >I have upgraded my disk space and I am having problems with Booteasy. >I reinstalled all my computer and I would like to have different OS on >different disks. > >It seemed liked Booteasy was able to boot a DOS partition from disk >drive 2 but this fails. > >I have for now a 800 MB partition on my first IDE drive. >I also have a DOS/Windows partition on my second IDE drive which is >bootable when I put it as primary drive. > >When it is as slave drive the Booteasy detect this partition but is not >able to boot from it. DOS and Windows 95 can only boot from the first drive (drive ID 0x80 to the BIOS). Swap the drives over so that the one with DOS/Windows is the primary one, then install Booteasy on that. You will be able to boot FreeBSD from the slave one, but you will need to change /etc/fstab so that it uses the correct devices. -- John Stark (at home), Cambridge, UK | mailto:jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk Tel. Cambridge (01223) 573555 | http://www.slugvine.demon.co.uk