Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:43:04 +0100 From: Bernt Nilsson <bernt@catz.se> To: Aron Stansvik <elvstone@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting 5.3R on second disk using NTLDR (Impossible?) Message-ID: <41E01BA8.9000008@catz.se> In-Reply-To: <751a4f8705010807004484cfba@mail.gmail.com> References: <751a4f8705010802562888ecd5@mail.gmail.com> <751a4f8705010807004484cfba@mail.gmail.com>
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Aron Stansvik skrev: > 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? No, no, it is not impossible, I am using this method. I used BOOTPART to extract the bootblock and it works very well. Just enter "bootpart" at Google and it should turn up first in the list. Bernthome | help
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