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From: vibes@hipdrome.org (Jørn-Morten Innselset)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1,Win95 and Win NT
Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:44:35 GMT
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On 5 Jun 1997 11:26:25 GMT, Ken Smith <merlyn@indigo.ie> wrote:
>Anyone know how to run BSD directly from the NT Bootloader ? I had it
>working linux but FreeBSD is different. I created a bootsect.bsd using the
>dd command but somehow I wouldn't work, I'm using an entire 1.6
>drive(Secondary Slave IDE) for my BSD file system which works fine from
>it's own boot manager. I want to fdisk /mbr to remove the boot manager and
>add it to the boot loader.

I believe you need to have /kernel (the whole root filesystem?) on the
same disk you are running the bootloader from for this to work.
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