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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:40:45 -0500
From: "Charles Anderson" <caa@columbus.rr.com>
To: Vladik <pvlad@bigfoot.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader
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Do you do this everytime or just to get things started?

If it's everytime, man that's a pain, if it's just to get things
started it's easier than what I did.  (but now I get a list of what I
want to boot from the NT bootloader, and I just hit the arrow down to
FreeBSD and go.)

-Charlie
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Vladik wrote:
> Hello,
> I am not sure if this exactly on topic,
> but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed
> beyond cyl 1024
> 
> 
> I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub)
> 
> Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and 
> do the following:
> 
> root (hd0,3,a)   # or whatever your FreeBSD root slice is
> #after the command above, it mounted the partition
> 
> kernel /kernel -remount
> boot
> 
> When kernel boots to the point where it needs to mount a root
> partion it will ask you,
> in there you type
> ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
> 
> 
> ----
> Vladislav

-- 
Charles Anderson	caa@columbus.rr.com

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