Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:07:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Booting a FreeBSD partition from DOS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030110704.17844E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B022CFD@exchange>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > I don't want to install a bootloader to choose between OS's so I first > tried the boot floppy. That's rare; usually people want the other way around. :-) > At the boot prompt I typed 'wd(2,a)kernel' but got lots of errors > complaining that 'C=0, H=0, S=0' (obviously cylinders, heads and > sectors). Try wd(2,a)/kernel instead. What's on your IDE controllers? Is there two disks on your first controller? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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