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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:19:18 +1100 (EST)
From:      "Craig Silva" <craig@union4.su.swin.edu.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   how to use NT boot loader?
Message-ID:  <199602271219.MAA22297@union4.su.swin.edu.au>

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I am trying to work out how to get NT to give me a choice to load Freebsd.

Some details:
Buslogic controller, 1st scsi drive has NT loaded on it, 2nd scsi drive 
has freebsd. I should say that I can boot Freebsd from floppy with 
sd(1,a)/kernel.

>From what I have read I have copied /usr/mdec/sdboot to the first scsi 
drive ie. c:\sdboot.sec - after editing boot.ini to point to sdboot.sec I 
get a choice when the disk is booted. If I choose Freebsd I get a message 
"no bootable partition".

Following more reading I tried editing /usr/src/sys/i386/biosboot/boot.c
to include:

        part = 0;
        unit = 1;
        drive = 0x81;
        maj = 0;

Following compiling it I copied it again to c:\sdboot.sec
using dd i.e:

dd if=/usr/mdec/sdboot of=/mountpointofdosfilesystem/sdboot.sec bs=512 
count=1

Again no bootable partition.

Can anyone point out where I might be going wrong.

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