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Subject: Re: Booting 5.3R on second disk using NTLDR (Impossible?)
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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