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Date:      Fri, 04 Dec 1998 08:29:21 +0100
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        joelh@gnu.org
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, rnordier@nordier.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to?
Message-ID:  <27052.912756561@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Dec 1998 22:34:38 -0600"
References:  <867lw8v82p.fsf@detlev.UUCP>

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> > Because you may have the FreeBSD install on the DOS partition, ie. not 
> > having a partition of its own.  So you can't guarantee that you can 
> > activate a different partition and boot from it.
> 
> So is my pursuit of FBSDBOOT worthwhile, or should I abandon it in
> favor of Robert's suggestion?

To me, FBSDBOOT is worthwhile. I have a laptop I've been unable to boot
with FreeBSD using a boot manager. Using FBSDBOOT works just fine.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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