Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 08:33:25 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Aron Stansvik <elvstone@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting 5.3R on second disk using NTLDR (Impossible?) Message-ID: <41DFFD45.1020503@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <751a4f8705010807004484cfba@mail.gmail.com> References: <751a4f8705010802562888ecd5@mail.gmail.com> <751a4f8705010807004484cfba@mail.gmail.com>
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Aron Stansvik wrote: > I did some in the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd news group, and I found some > people with the same problem. I'm suspecting that it is impossible to > boot FreeBSD by using NTLDR to load the FreeBSD boot sector from a > file when FreeBSD is placed on a second disk. > > Can anyone confirm that this is the case? (the news group postings > were very old). And why is it so? > > Thanks for any answers. > > Aron No, it's not impossible. Unfortunately, I don't recall exactly how I did it, but the boot sector file that I used at the time is at http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/bootsect.bsd.tgz. I don't know if it will work for you, but it's worth a try. Scott
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