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From: mfrisch@rogerswave.ca (Mike Frisch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from NT boot manager?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 96 03:52:37 GMT
Organization: Rogers Cablesystems Ltd.
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In article <54djoc$4fm@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk wrote:
>I've recently (since my last post here) read an article explaining how to
>make NT boot FreeBSD. It involves dd'ing the start of the FreeBSD boot
>disk into a file on the NT partition and pointing boot.ini at it. Have
>a look using dejanews if you don't read this whole group.
I tried doing this, but it did not work in my configuration.
I suspect it's because my system boots from an EIDE drive (to the NT
boot manager) and FreeBSD resides on a SCSI disk. When I attempt the
'dd' trick, it reports "no bootable partition" and just sits there.
FWIW, I am booting my Linux installation from the NT boot
manager using the same "trick", but it's installed on an EIDE disk.
Mike.
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