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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.stealth.net!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de!erb From: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sd2/2 FreeBSD installation problem Date: 27 Sep 1996 17:11:08 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 30 Message-ID: <52h1rc$mp6@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <51pdak$s1@ns1.win.net> <3244C4A3.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> <527v10$g24@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <3248456E.6201DD56@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-No-Archive: Yes In article <3248456E.6201DD56@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >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. Yes. You could even do this with a DOS bootdisk if no HD partition left. I just remembered how to make a bootable floppy without DOS: cat /usr/mdec/rawboot /kernel | fdwrite (though I don't know if rawboot exists on the latest -SNAP or even 2.1.5, I'm running -current here) >Igitt. :-) :-)) That's what I thought, too. But better than no FreeBSD at all ;-) >Still, it's a clever solution to the problem, I'll admit. Uhm, thanks ;) Olaf -- There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. -- Richard Bach, Illusions