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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:28:24 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811251026430.24871-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199811250640.OAA01720@hsw.generalresources.com>

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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Christopher Hall wrote:

> 
> In message <199811240210.SAA01652@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
> >...
> >> What should rootdev be set to when booting da0s1a with one IDE drive?
> >
> >Ignore $rootdev and instead set $num_ide_disks to 1.
> >
> 
> That works, thanks.
> 
> Another question: Is there any way to boot DOS from /boot/loader?
> Perhaps using some Forth code?

Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD
from DOS partition, using /boot/loader?

(I suspect it's not possible in both cases, though...)

Andrzej Bialecki

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