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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:53:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>
To:        John Uhler <john@kinara.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting NT & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971124215112.1367C-100000@ganymede.bloomington.nsisw.com>
In-Reply-To: <B0000000157@borg.issnet.com>

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This generally means that the partition/device does not exist.  Verify
that you indeed have an sd0 (check boot messages).  Verify that
you have a BSD slice (partition) with fdisk.  Verify that sd0a exists
with disklabel.

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, John Uhler wrote:

> I don't know an extreme about about unix so I'm kind of stuck here....
> 
> I have NT Server 4 installed on part 1 and freebsd 2.2.5 on part 2, I have
> read the faq on how to copy the boot sector to NT and use the NT Boot
> manager but everytime I try to use the dd if=/dev/rsd0a
> of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd ...
> I get a device not configured error for the rsd0a any suggestions?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> John Uhler
> john@issnet.com
> 




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