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From: steranka@steranka.com (Patrick Steranka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How to boot from the 2nd DOS partiiton
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:20:47 -0500
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I want to boot from a floppy and and start up FreeBSD, but I don't
know how to tell the boot: prompt to load from the 1st BSDs slice
(wd0s2a).
I have installed FreeBSD onto a system that has Win-95 on it. The
DOS partitions are like this:
I have one 3.2 GIG Disk:
C: 1.6 GIG
D: 1.6 GIG (this is were I installed FreeBSD).
The install went without a hitch. I chose NOT to install the boot
manager (maybe that is were I went wrong). I found two problems:
(1) When I finished installing FreeBSD, the D: (partition)
was marked as "active", so by default I booted automatically
into FreeBSD. This wasn't a problem for long. I booted from
a Win-95 floppy and ran FDISK and marked the C: (partition)
as the active one, and I am back to booting Win-95 by default.
(2) When I boot from the FreeBSD floppy, I wasn't able to tell the
bootstrap loader to boot from (/dev/wd0s2a). I tried:
wd(2,a)kernel
wd(2,a)/kernel
wd(0,a)kernel
1:wd(0,a)kernel
Oh well, all these failed. Most returned an infinite spew of
messages in the format:
Error: D: 0x81 C:0 H:1 S:1
note the 0x81, changed to 0x82, 0x83.
I haven't fully RTFM'ed (but I have looked some :-)), so please
forgive me if this is a straight forward question/answer.
--
Patrick Steranka
steranka@steranka.com
wk: 301-680-3343