Date: 30 Oct 97 12:15:25 +0100 From: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting a FreeBSD partition from DOS Message-ID: <2fb_9710302302@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B022CFD@exchange>
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At 30 Oct 97 10:46:28 Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk (2:234/49.99) wrote to Leif Neland regarding Booting a FreeBSD partition from DOS in area "freebsd-questions" J> Next I tried fbsdboot.exe from the dist CD. I can see no option of J> telling fbsdboot.exe which partition to boot from, so I compiled J> a new kernel (on my other dedicated FreeBSD machine) with the J> default root device set to 'wd2'. I then copied this new kernel J> to the Win95 partition. Now I CAN boot the FreeBSD partition J> using something like: 'fbsdboot -D d:/kernel' (might be wrong, I J> can't remember), but whenever I do a 'ps' or 'df', I get an error J> from the kernel complaining that it can't find 'd:/kernel' or J> something (not surprisingly). J> J> To summarise: J> Is there an easy way to boot a FreeBSD partition without using a J> bootloader? I use this batfile from dos: cd \files\freebsd fbsdboot -r -D kernel This gives "kernel" without path, so FreeBSD looks for "/kernel", where I have put a copy. I haven't tried, but I guess it is possible to do "mount_msdos /dev/sd0s1a /d:" and have /d: as a mount-point, just as I now have /dos-c and /dos-d mount_msdos'ed. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk
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