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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting from floppy
Date: 3 Jul 1996 00:11:41 -0500
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Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:
: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: >scilailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F) wrote:
: >> is it possible to boot FreeBSD from floppy and mounting the hdd?
: >Yes, it is.
: Does anybody know how to ? I have read the FAQ but did not see
: any mention of it. While we are at it, how does one re-install
: Boot-Manager ?
At the Boot: prompt, type
hd(0,a)/kernel
This boots from the FreeBSD 'a' partition your BIOS's first (0th) hard
drive, running the file "/kernel".
I believe that the "booteasy" program is used to install the FreeBSD
boot manager, however I have never installed this - except from the
install floppy. I get the impression that there may be a DOS program
on the installation CD to do this - dunno, I've just got my first
FreeBSD CD (I've downloaded from the net so far).
The OS-BS boot manager, however, is prettier than FreeBSD's boot
manager. The pretty version uses more than the first block on the
disk - which is fine as long as you've got DOS or the equivalent
starting at sector 32 on your disk.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....