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From: dh@enter.net (Daniel Hauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Boot - Win 95 & FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 05:33:48 GMT
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wayne@aarnet.edu.au (Wayne Farmer) wrote:
>I have Win 95 on a 1Gb disk and have just installed FreeBSD on a 2nd
>disk (as a FreeBSD partition).
>
>I have OnTrack Disk Manager on the 1st disk (older ISA/IDEsystem).
>
>I would like to be able to boot and choose between Win 95 or FreeBSD
>but am reluctant to install the Boot Manager and risk losing On Track
>and most of my 1 Gb disk.
>
>What's the best way to go ?
>Can fbsdboot.exe be of help ?
>Is their a floppy boot option like Linux that will kick off the boot
>from the appropriate disk ?
>
>Many thanks
>
Might be a better idea to use a boot disk to boot the kernel on the
second disk...... To my knowlege the boot manager overwrites the MBR.
I use both win 95 and freebsd, using the boot manager, but I installed
win 95 first, and then free bsd, and I dont use ontrack on this 540,
but then the dos partition ends at cylinder 520 and the freebsd
starts..
you could boot freebsd from your 1st hard disk if your dos partttion
ends below 528 MB, and your root partition starts below cylinder 1024
(<528MB)
dh