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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to boot from the 2nd DOS partiiton
Date: 10 Mar 1997 11:39:29 GMT
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In article <MPG.d8be887662112859896a8@news.erols.com>,
steranka@steranka.com (Patrick Steranka) writes:
> 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:
[.....]
> (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
wd(0,a)/kernel should do the trick - as should what you typed (3rd).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !