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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:22:43 +0200
From:      Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com>
To:        Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim <ihsan_junaidi@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from a CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020929152206.00bcc0e8@mail.lusidor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1541219139.20020929182604@yahoo.com.sg>

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At 18:26 2002-09-29 +0800, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>   I can't search the archives for a solution. I thought I give this list 
> a try.
>
>   WinXP  screwed  me last night and I'm forced to reinstall it. I totally 
> forgot
>   that  I  already  have  a FreeBSD installation on it and realized only 
> after I
>   installed it that I would not be able to boot if off because WinXP MBR 
> had already
>   overridden it with its own. I don't have floppy on this system, only 
> CD-ROM.
>
>   I notice there's an option "boot: " I assume, for selecting kernel 
> after booting
>   off   from a FreeBSD CD. How do I make use of the option? Do I need to 
> include
>   the specific disk and slice. I have 3 disks da0, da1 and ad0 according 
> to BIOS
>   ordering. FreeBSD stays in da1 and the kernel resides at 
> /kernels/kernel-new. I
>   read   from   the   handbook that boot2 stage spawns off loader or 
> boot3 stage
>   depending  on the parameters. Also it explains up until unload and set 
> kernel,
>   if   possible  I  want to use loader because I've done a few 
> customizations in
>   loader.conf which I don't know how to make it out without using a loader.
>
>   Thanks in advance.
>
>--
>Thank you for your time,
>Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
>
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