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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!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!mr.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sd2/2 FreeBSD installation problem Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:32:46 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3248456E.6201DD56@FreeBSD.org> References: <51pdak$s1@ns1.win.net> <3244C4A3.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> <527v10$g24@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de Olaf Erb wrote: > I just cp'd the kernel to a dos partition and used fbsdboot.exe to boot > this kernel. Ah, that's the key part there (and why I didn't suggest an sd2 install to the first poster) - given the fact that the BIOS can't boot from sd2, Olaf here has simply worked out a way to indirect boot through DOS. Igitt. :-) Still, it's a clever solution to the problem, I'll admit. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project