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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Booting.
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, eagle eye wrote:

> What files are needed to boot FreeBSD?  I have it loaded on my machine
> with Win 95 (SR2) and Dos 6.22.  I have system commander ver3.0.  When I
> try to boot with System commander I get a read error.  FreeBSD is loaded
> right after my dos partition.  FreeBSD is started in the first 512.  Any
> help is greatly appreciated.  I am loading via CDROM.  Thank you

Can you boot it using a boot floppy?  Type 'wd(0,a)/kernel' at the Boot:
prompt, assuming your FreeBSD slice is on the first IDE disk in your
system.

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