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From: stuart+@pitt.edu (Stu Pomerantz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: need help booting freebsd
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 97 01:38:19 GMT
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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.

Thanks!

Stu Pomerantz