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Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help
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Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> writes:
> But I can boot Linux using a floppy disk,  I was expecting that
> it would be possible to create a similar disk for booting my
> FreeBSD partition. I don't know how to do it.... is it not possible ?

Yes, it is.  However, a $30 IDE controller will allow you to boot
straight from the disk, and use the entire 40GB capacity.

DES
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