Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:18:53 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net> To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4, FBSD, different disks and booting Message-ID: <19970731171853.17574@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199707311521.KAA01642@beowulf.utmb.edu>; from M. L. Dodson on Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 10:21:24AM -0500 References: <199707311521.KAA01642@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 10:21:24AM -0500, M. L. Dodson wrote: <SNIP> > > Select the FreeBSD entry at the NT boot prompt. > > At the FreeBSD boot prompt enter: > > 1:sd(0,a)kernel (just like you were booting from a floppy) > > FreeBSD comes up and finds its root partition correctly. If you do > not enter: > > 1:sd(0,a)kernel > > at the FreeBSD boot prompt, the kernel panics because it cannot find > its root partition (device probe works, though). If you do this at a shell prompt: # echo "1:sd(0,a)/kernel" > /boot.config typing this by hand will no longer be necessary (at least with newer bootblocks).
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