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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:18:53 -0400
From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net>
To: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NT4, FBSD, different disks and booting
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On Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 10:21:24AM -0500, M. L. Dodson wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
> Select the FreeBSD entry at the NT boot prompt.
> 
> At the FreeBSD boot prompt enter:
> 
> 1:sd(0,a)kernel  (just like you were booting from a floppy)
> 
> FreeBSD comes up and finds its root partition correctly.  If you do
> not enter:
> 
> 1:sd(0,a)kernel 
> 
> at the FreeBSD boot prompt, the kernel panics because it cannot find 
> its root partition (device probe works, though).

  If you do this at a shell prompt:

# echo "1:sd(0,a)/kernel" > /boot.config

typing this by hand will no longer be necessary (at least with newer
bootblocks).