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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to recover BSD Boot Manager Date: 24 Oct 1995 22:56:56 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 16 Message-ID: <46jnf8$503@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <45vunn$77p@bilbo.nask.org.pl> <f92fccdc&m0t5B29-00070DN@glas.apc.org> <468vfu$1ib@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.my.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <468vfu$1ib@agate.berkeley.edu>, Charles Anderson <cander@cimsim.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >I saw all the various ways of doing it the right way, but out of curiousity, >how does one boot from a running DOS prompt? This would be enough for >my limited purposes. There is a program available called ``fbsdboot.exe''. It will allow you to boot into a FreeBSD system from the DOS prompt. Not guarenteed to work as it is very dependant on what memory managers you are running and what other applications (e.g. windows) have done to them. Look in /sys/i386/boot/dosboot on 2.0.5R or later systems. Gary