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From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
Subject: docs/13207: Update to the FAQ
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The following reply was made to PR docs/13207; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: docs/13207: Update to the FAQ
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 01:01:25 +0100 (BST)

 >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >Originator:     Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
 >Organization:   
 >Confidential:   no ] (one line)>
 >Synopsis:       Update to the FAQ
 >Severity:       non-critical
 >Priority:       low
 >Category:       docs
 >Release:        FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386
 >Class:          change-request
 >Environment: 
 
 	
 
 >Description: 
 
 New diff for DocBook FAQ
 
 
 
 >How-To-Repeat: 
 
 	
 
 >Fix: 
 	
 
 *** book.sgml.orig	Mon Sep  6 22:16:42 1999
 --- book.sgml	Thu Sep  9 00:50:00 1999
 ***************
 *** 3471,3476 ****
 --- 3471,3479 ----
   <qandaentry><question>
   <para>How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?</para></question><answer>
   
 + <para>The procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x (with the
 + 3-stage boot) systems.</para>
 + 
   <para>The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your
   native root FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/NT
   partition.  Assuming you name that file something like
 ***************
 *** 3489,3499 ****
         </literallayout>
   </para>
     
 ! <para>This procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD, or whatever
 ! have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions on the
 ! <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis> disk.  In my case DOS &amp; NT are in the first fdisk
 ! partition and FreeBSD is in the second.  I also installed FreeBSD
 ! to boot from its native partition, <emphasis remap=bf>not</emphasis> the disk MBR.</para>
     
   <para>Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you've converted to NTFS) or the
   FAT partition, under, say, <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
 --- 3492,3503 ----
         </literallayout>
   </para>
     
 ! <para>For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD,
 ! or whatever have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions
 ! on the <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis> disk.  In my case DOS &amp;
 ! NT are in the first fdisk partition and FreeBSD is in the second.  I also
 ! installed FreeBSD to boot from its native partition,
 ! <emphasis remap=bf>not</emphasis> the disk MBR.</para>
     
   <para>Mount a DOS-formatted floppy (if you've converted to NTFS) or the
   FAT partition, under, say, <filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
 ***************
 *** 3525,3530 ****
 --- 3529,3543 ----
   ``<emphasis remap=tt>fdisk</emphasis>'' command after you reconfigure them to boot from their
   native partitions.</para>
     
 + <para>For 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.</para>
 + 
 + <para>If FreeBSD is installed on the <emphasis remap=bf>same</emphasis>
 + disk as the NT boot partition copy <filename>/boot/boot1</filename>
 + to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename> or, if FreeBSD is installed on a
 + <emphasis remap=bf>different</emphasis> disk, copy
 + <filename>/boot/boot0</filename> to <filename>C:\BOOTSECT.BSD</filename>.
 + Then edit the <filename>C:\BOOT.INI</filename> file as described above.</para>
 + 
   </answer></qandaentry>
   
   <qandaentry><question>
 
 


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