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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!microunity!usenet From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Whatever...Help In-Reply-To: "Hanns B. Wetzel"'s message of Thu, 09 May 1996 12:05:46 +0000 Message-ID: <oq7mul8iiz.fsf@gallifrey.microunity.com> Sender: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <mele-2204960810390001@dial-1.r2.gastbo.infoave.net> <SCOTTE.96May2085010@odie.center.uscs.com> <3191DF9A.2781E494@interbay.net.au> Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 00:43:32 GMT Lines: 42 In article <3191DF9A.2781E494@interbay.net.au> "Hanns B. Wetzel" <hbw@interbay.net.au> writes: L. Scott Emmons wrote: > > Yep. FreeBSD comes with a simple boot manager, but there are others - > freeware, shareware, and payware. > > -scotte > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > L. Scott Emmons |CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA > (916)939-6088 |>> Standard disclaimer applies. Views are my << > scotte@center.uscs.com |>> own, not those of U.S. Computer Services. << Have FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my second hard drive and DOS/Windows 3.11 on my first. The boot manager that came with FreeBSD nicely handles booting. Now I want to install Windows 95 on my first hard drive and leave the second as is. I understand the FreeBSD boot manager resides in the MBR on drive 1 and that Windows 95 may overwrite this. Is there a way from preventing Windows 95 from doing this, or are my concerns unfounded. I found a real cool reference that discusses multi-booting WinNT, Win95, DOS and Linux using the WinNT multi-booter. I am planning to try to adopt the approach for use with FreeBSD as the UNIX rather than Linux (but haven't gotten there yet). However, the reference does discuss how WinNT, Win95 and DOS all rename the boot sector hidden files and how to manage them with the WinNT multi-booter. Caveat - I have not attempted to use the info yet - I just found the web page. Nonetheless, here's the URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html Good luck, and please let me know if it works (via email if you wish). -- ---------- Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA