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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:28:49 +0200
From:      Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Creating bootsector file for W2k boot menu
Message-ID:  <15855.46849.427778.242002@ultrahot.finland.sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021205142947.GB3654@gothmog.gr>
References:  <15854.32811.323124.889597@ultrahot.finland.sun.com> <20021205142947.GB3654@gothmog.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas writes:
 > 
 > I have FreeBSD installed on two primary slices of my machine, as you
 > can see from the df(1) output below.  I can boot FreeBSD fine, if I
 > copy the boot record of the slice my root partition lives in:
 > 
 > 	# df /
 > 	Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 > 	/dev/ad0s1a    498078   85920   372312    19%    /
 > 
 > 	# dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/root/bsdboot.bin bs=512 count=1
 > 
 > Then copy bsdboot.bin to a Windows partition, say in C:\BSDBOOT.BIN
 > and add the following to the C:\BOOT.INI file:
 > 
 > 	C:\BSDBOOT.BIN="FreeBSD on ad0s1"
 > 
 > That should be all...
 >
Hi,

Your idea is correct but this gives just "Boot error".  I need to make
a boot sector which contains information that I'm booting from third
physical disk.  I think normally there is a value of 0x80 which means
first disk.  Old Makefile option changed just this value.

  Tomppa

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