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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!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help w/ booteasy Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:41:32 -0700 Organization: Andreas Klemm, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 29 Message-ID: <321BBACC.5509@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4v6egu$dcr@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Marco Temaner wrote: > > I performed the following procedure: > > Install WindowsNT 3.51 on lone IDE drive. No problem, works fine. > Install DOS 6.22 and FreeBSD on a *different* lone IDE drive. > Install booteasy on DOS/FreeBSD drive. I am able to choose between OSs. > Make DOS/FreeBSD drive the master and WindowsNT drive the slave. > Run bootinst. It sees the HPFS partition and claims to install > successfully. > > So now DOS works fine, FreeBSD works fine, but when I hit the "disk2" option > and then "F1" for HPFS, the computer freezes. > > Any ideas? > > TIA. > You need to install Booteasy on *both* drives. That way it can fool the Macroslop OSes (such as NT) into being willing to boot from the second drive. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |