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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!raffles.technet.sg!usenet From: maverick@po.pacific.net.sg (Maverick Research Inc Pte Ltf) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD boot manager Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:20:44 GMT Organization: Pacific Internet, Singapore Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4gbsnj$b0n@raffles.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn136.ppp.pacific.net.sg X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 How does one install the FreeBSD Boot Manager on a floppy ? I.e. how can I boot from the floppy ? I installed Free BSD on my third SCSI hard-disk (/dev/sd2) as the 4th partition. I also wrote the BSD boot manager to the third hard-disk MBR,( something I regret because it seems to have trashed a SCO ODT partition that I had on there. My SCO system can no longer read that partition. The divvy table seems to have been corrupted and I can't figure out how to restore it). However, I can't boot from the third hard-disk using the suggested syntax hd(2,a)/kernel (I also tried hd(2,b) , upto hd(2,d). Can someone help me here ? ALso is it possible to use the Linux loader (LILO) to boot FREEBSD of the third (or any) hard-disk ? THanks for your help, Suresh.