Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:46:28 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Booting a FreeBSD partition from DOS Message-ID: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B022CFD@exchange>
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Hi chaps, I've currently got Win95 on my primary master HD, and have installed FreeBSD on a partition on my secondary master HD (wd2a). The install went OK. I don't want to install a bootloader to choose between OS's so I first tried the boot floppy. At the boot prompt I typed 'wd(2,a)kernel' but got lots of errors complaining that 'C=0, H=0, S=0' (obviously cylinders, heads and sectors). Next I tried fbsdboot.exe from the dist CD. I can see no option of telling fbsdboot.exe which partition to boot from, so I compiled a new kernel (on my other dedicated FreeBSD machine) with the default root device set to 'wd2'. I then copied this new kernel to the Win95 partition. Now I CAN boot the FreeBSD partition using something like: 'fbsdboot -D d:/kernel' (might be wrong, I can't remember), but whenever I do a 'ps' or 'df', I get an error from the kernel complaining that it can't find 'd:/kernel' or something (not surprisingly). To summarise: Is there an easy way to boot a FreeBSD partition without using a bootloader? TIA, Jeff Bond --------------------------------------------------- Jeffery Bond <mailto:jeffbond@compuserve.com> <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeffbond>; ---------------------------------------------------
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