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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!agate!news.ucsc.edu!usenet From: Michael Shafae <cadaver@cats.ucsc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: I can install it but I can't boot Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:40:15 -0700 Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 20 Message-ID: <33821A3F.41C67EA6@cats.ucsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: as215-sparc-4.ucsc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41340 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? thanks in advance for any help michael -- If you reply by email, remove the trailing X in my address