From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 20:29:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E86216A4CE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:29:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web.lomag.net (web.lomag.net [208.185.81.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7400C43D2D for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:29:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flint@virtualflu.com) Received: (qmail 71876 invoked by uid 98); 30 Aug 2004 20:29:13 -0000 Received: from flint@virtualflu.com by web.lomag.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20st (clamuko: 0.67. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(151.197.126.157):. Processed in 0.033322 secs); 30 Aug 2004 20:29:13 -0000 Received: from pool-151-197-126-157.phil.east.verizon.net (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (151.197.126.157) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 20:29:13 -0000 Message-ID: <41338E0E.5080701@virtualflu.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:29:02 -0400 From: Matthew Crowe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrik W Lund References: <4130EBB7.9090309@virtualflu.com> <41328894.7010409@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <41328894.7010409@broadpark.no> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs_msdos bootstrap file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:29:15 -0000 Henrik: Yes, I did try /boot/mbr and /boot/boot0 (and boot1), but none of them successfully booted dos or windows. I think I need to steal one from a FAT32 filesystem that was made with Dos's fdisk.. :( Matt Henrik W Lund wrote: > Matthew Crowe wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> In the newfs_msdos(8) man page, there is a -B option to add a >> bootstrap from a file. How do you generate this bootstrap? >> >> I wanted to make a FAT32 filesystem that Windows or Dos could boot, >> from freebsd. Newfs_msdos creates the filesystem just fine.. it just >> won't boot anything :) >> >> Thanks, >> Matt > > > Greetings! > > Have you tried the file /boot/mbr or even /boot/boot0? These files are > "boot code", so why not try them? > > I may be totally off here, but hey - nothing ventured, nothing gained, > eh? ;-) > > -Henrik W Lund > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >