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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:53:24 -0700
From:      Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no>
To:        Matthew Crowe <flint@virtualflu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newfs_msdos bootstrap file
Message-ID:  <41328894.7010409@broadpark.no>
In-Reply-To: <4130EBB7.9090309@virtualflu.com>
References:  <4130EBB7.9090309@virtualflu.com>

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Matthew Crowe wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In the newfs_msdos(8) man page, there is a -B option to add a 
> bootstrap from a file.  How do you generate this bootstrap?
>
> I wanted to make a FAT32 filesystem that Windows or Dos could boot, 
> from freebsd.  Newfs_msdos creates the filesystem just fine.. it just 
> won't boot anything :)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt 

Greetings!

Have you tried the file /boot/mbr or even /boot/boot0? These files are 
"boot code", so why not try them?

I may be totally off here, but hey - nothing ventured, nothing gained, 
eh? ;-)

-Henrik W Lund



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