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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:07:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Booting a FreeBSD partition from DOS
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bond, Jeffery wrote:

> I don't want to install a bootloader to choose between OS's so I first
> tried the boot floppy.

That's rare; usually people want the other way around. :-)

> 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). 

Try 

wd(2,a)/kernel

instead.

What's on your IDE controllers?  Is there two disks on your first
controller?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major