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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot Managing NT & FreeBSD
Date: 12 Dec 1996 16:10:22 -0000
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Joe Green (greenj@iastate.edu) wrote:
: Brian Somers wrote:
[.....]
: > I don't thing there's any way not to have NTs boot manager. If you want
: > to boot FreeBSD using it, dump the first 512 bytes of your freebsd partition
: > into a file (say C:\FREEBSD.INI) and put a line
: >
: > C:\FREEBSD.INI="Boot FreeBSD"
: >
: > in C:\BOOT.INI. Works a treat. NT loads and executes the file. FreeBSD
: > doesn't know it hasn't actually been read from disk and continues as if
: > you loaded the primary boot strap normally.
[.....]
: I have tried to do this using the instructions in the FAQ at
: freeBSD.org. The install was successful, but when I tried to use the dd
: command to create a file, it gave me an error message that "/dev/rsd0a
: is not configured". I'm pretty new to Unix type systems and haven't
: used them for a long time. What does this message mean, and how do I
: work around the problem. Thank you.
Have you by any chance got an IDE disk ? If so, you need to use /dev/rwd0a
instead of sd0a - the wd is IDE, sd is SCSI.
Device not configured means that the kernel doesn't have a driver to call
which means it's either not in the kernel or wasn't detected at startup.
I actually created FREEBSD.INI using norton diskedit (view the partition
table, write down the head/sector/track numbers, view one track at that
position, highlight it and save it to C:\FREEBSD.INI. Either way should
suffice.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....