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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: using NT loader to boot fbsd
Date: 10 Apr 1997 15:00:06 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <334BFF3F.7C5A@worldnet.att.net>,
Vijay Konkimalla <vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> 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????"
This should be /dev/rwd1 or /dev/rwd1c rather than /dev/rwd1a.
'c' is the whole partition, 'a' is the virutal boot partition.
> We would also like to know what options we should enable in the kernel
> build to enable Future Domain 850/950 CDROM.
Dunno - sorry.
> Please mail your comments to:
> madhavi@bellsouth.net
> or
> vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net
>
> Thank you
>
> --Vijay/Chowdary
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !