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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:40:52 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? 
Message-ID:  <199811251640.IAA00674@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:28:24 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811251026430.24871-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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

It's not generally possible to boot FreeBSD once DOS has started; 
modern DOS versions corrupt the BIOS vectors in a fashion that makes it 
impossible to obtain system information.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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