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From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: need help booting freebsd
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:54:09 +0000
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Stu Pomerantz wrote:
> 
> Hello All:
> 
> I installed freebsd on the second physical ide hard disk in my machine. I also
> have an IDE cdrom. The first hard disk has DOS/NT on it. I'd like to be able
> to boot freebsd from the boot floppy, or ideally, with a DOS program like
> loadlin ( which will boot linux from DOS ).
> 
> How do I do this? I can't seem to figure out the device name of my second ide
> hard disk. And, given this info, how do I tell the boot disk to boot off that
> drive.

Something like wd(1,a)/kernel should work I think.

Steve