On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> >
> >
> > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
> > the only thing that MS doesn't do correctly whe installing the OS on the
> > non-primary disk. I used to do this a long time ago to boot FreeBSD of the
> > "C" drive and the other stuff off of "second C" drive.
>
> I'll try that this weekend. Preumably I can just do this under FreeBSD
> using fdisk?
You cannot do it using fdisk. I tonly manipulates the parition
table poriton of the MBR. The "bios device" number is in portion before
the partition table. I hesitate to just give an offset and say poke away,
so I'd look for a disk editing tool like Norton Disk Editor. That's what I
used when I last did this a few years ago.
Adrian
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