From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 01:49:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA28598 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from nectech.nectech.co.uk (nectech.nectech.co.uk [194.129.183.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA28592 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from <@host200-253.neceur.com:Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>) Received: from host200-253.neceur.com by nectech.nectech.co.uk id aa25838; 30 Oct 97 9:57 GMT Received: by exchange with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:46:30 -0000 Message-ID: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B022CFD@exchange> From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Booting a FreeBSD partition from DOS Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:46:28 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ---------------------------------------------------