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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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