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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I can install it but I can't boot
Date: 21 May 1997 14:44:17 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33821A3F.41C67EA6@cats.ucsc.edu>,
Michael Shafae <cadaver@cats.ucsc.edu> writes:
> I can't get my computer to boot into FreeBSD once I have it installed. I
> have two scsi disks in my computer. The first is dedicated to NT and the
> second is dedicated to FreeBSD.
>
> I start up with the boot floppy for FreeBSD and install FreeBSD. The
> installation goes with out a hitch. But then I come to a problem. I want
> to be able to dual boot with NT but I don't know how to tell the
> computer to boot off the second hard disk so that I can copy the
> bootsector to a file so that I can use the NT boot loader.
>
> I am just stuck as to how to boot into FreeBSD for the first time. Is
> there some command or magic word I can type at the BOOT: prompt of the
> FreeBSD boot floppy to make it start up the copy of FreeBSD on the
> second hard disk?
Try sd(1,a)/kernel at the boot prompt (or wd(1,a)/kernel if you have IDE).
This is assuming your BIOS can read the disk.
> thanks in advance for any help
>
> michael
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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