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Date:      Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:41:15 -0400
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   boot/loader
Message-ID:  <200210032241.g93MfFw06292@odyssey.cs.rpi.edu>

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Is it possible, using boot/loader, to boot to an arbitrary parition on
a disk.  Say a DOS parition?  If it is, or this could be easily added to 
boot/loader (shouldn't be difficult, read in first sector to ADDRESS,
jmp to it, right?)  It would be hundreds of times better than boot0 in
most cases.

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