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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT boot FreeBSD off 2nd drive ?
Date: 15 Dec 1996 02:53:06 -0000
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In article <dkleinh.850523244@isotope.ps.uci.edu>,
	dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu (Dirk Kleinhesselink) writes:
: I have a system with NT on disk 1 and FreeBSD on disk 2.  I'd liked to boot
: FreeBSD using the NT bootloader and I've done this successfully when NT
: and FreeBSD are both on disk 1.  I've booted Linux with NT, when Linux was
: on disk 2 successfully, but I couldn't boot FreeBSD from NT when FreeBSD
: was on disk 2.  I tried:
: 
: dd if=/dev/rwd1a of=/dos/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1
: 
: and 
: added a line:
: C:\bootsect.bsd="FreeBSD" 
: to my boot.ini file.
: 
: I get the message "no bootable partition" when I select FreeBSD to boot.
: 
: I also tried: /dev/rwd1s1 and /dev/rwd1s1a to get the bootsector.

Does the Boot: prompt appear ?  It looks like it should, but you should
also have to enter "wd(1,a)/kernel" at the prompt.

Now how was talking about a facility to "remember" the last boot string....

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.