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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: Vijay Konkimalla <vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: using NT loader to boot fbsd Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:42:39 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 36 Message-ID: <334BFF3F.7C5A@worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.146.1.184 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38823 A friend of mine has the following: windows NT 3.51/windows 95/FreeBSD 2.2.1R on a pentium w/32M RAM, external Future domain SCSI CDROM and 2 IDE hard drives. First hard drive: ~400 MB on which the OS's Windows NT/ 95 are installed. (both work well) and get launched properly. Second hard drive (~1.1 GB) was partitioned to 750/300 MB. The first partition has data/software and the second partition has FreeBSD 2.2.1R To booting FBSD, the current technic is to use the installation disk (generated from boot.flp) and upon boot: type "1:wd(1,a)/kernel" It works okay. But I understand from the FAQ that we could use the NT loader to boot to FBSD. We have tried but failed. I assume, our mistake is in the generation of bootsector. We have used dd if=/dev/rwd1a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1 Since, the fbsd is on second partition of the second hard drive, we are not sure of the device "rwd1????" We would also like to know what options we should enable in the kernel build to enable Future Domain 850/950 CDROM. Please mail your comments to: madhavi@bellsouth.net or vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net Thank you --Vijay/Chowdary