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From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT boot FreeBSD off 2nd drive ?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:32:53 +0000
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Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote:

> I have a system with NT on disk 1 and FreeBSD on disk 2.  I'd liked to boot
> FreeBSD using the NT bootloader and I've done this successfully when NT
> and FreeBSD are both on disk 1.  

I think when FreeBSD's boot(1) is invoked it get passed the first drive
as parameter. 
I think what you want is not possible.

You can of course modify boot.c a bit... 


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