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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!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: Installation Problem (2 hard disks with Win95 & FreeBSD) Date: 12 Aug 1996 05:51:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4umgpi$3gb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4u53gb$6ik@mambo.cs.wustl.edu> <4ug4ep$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <320D85E5.41C67EA6@diac.com> <4ul76c$nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> <320E6BAB.3F54BC7E@diac.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 Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.com> wrote: > >> Are you sure you want it on both disks? I had a real problem with that > > I am sure. That's the only way how it can toggle back and forth > > between both disks. > I had these problems about 6 months ago running Win95 (wd0) and > FreeBSD (wd1). So something else must have been broken. The way how it is supposed to work: BIOS loads block 0 of drive 0x80 block 0 contains booteasy, and this will display e.g.: F1 - Doth F2 - Moozoolix F5 - Disk 2 If you hit F1 or F2, the respective boot sectors of those partitions are loaded. If you hit F5: BIOS loads block 0 of drive 0x81 block 0 contains booteasy, and this will display e.g.: F1 - FooBSD F5 - Disk 1 If you hit F1 (...obvious), if you hit F5, everything starts from the very beginning. In order to keep this intact, it's obvious that you need booteasy on all managed drives, there won't be a way to switch back otherwise. If you don't have it on the second drive, but the second drive is dedicated (i.e., it can only boot FooBSD), it might work nevertheless, and ``Disk 2'' above in the first menu would implicitly translate into ``FooBSD'' then. -- 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. ;-)