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

Bernt