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From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@box.net.au>
cc: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Matthew Thyer wrote:

> I do this...
> 
> Because I have a plug and pray sound card in a non plug and pray
> motherboard, I have to 'activate' the sound card from DOS with the
> "Intel Configuration Manager" before booting FreeBSD or the sound
> card will not be detected in the device probes.  To do this I have
> set things up to default to booting my previous version of md-dos
> which has DWCFGMG.SYS in its config.sys (thus activating the card)
> then the autoexec.bat will re-write the boot block and reboot the
> machine thus booting into FreeBSD.
> 
> I use the bootblock restore program from a utility called BOOTSAVE
> in DOS to manipulate the boot blocks and in FreeBSD on shutdown I
> use a script called "shutit" which is:

  Or you could just use the fbsdboot.exe from DOS, to boot right into
FreeBSD without messing with boot managers.  fbsdboot.exe is in /usr/mdec

Tom