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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:16:09 GMT
From:      mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting problem
Message-ID:  <Dp6F2x.3E2@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
References:  <199603290358.WAA19433@umbc10.umbc.edu>

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In article <199603290358.WAA19433@umbc10.umbc.edu>,
	ssriva1@gl.umbc.edu (Sandip Srivastava) writes:
>I am trying to boot freebsd using the fbsdboot.exe file, but when I run this
>command from DOS, I get the following message:
>
>bad disklabelCan't find /kernel
>
>My C: drive is all DOS/Windows.  On the D: drive I have a 100Mb DOS partition
>and the rest is devoted to freebsd.  What could be the problem?
>
I think so.  The problem is that fbsdboot is looking for the kernel/
root file system on wd0 (the first IDE drive).  I think there is some
option that you can use with fbsdboot to feed it a kernel readable
from DOS (ie copy the kernel over to C: and call fbsdboot with it
as an argument.  I think you will find a bat file on the CD-ROM which
does the same thing.
/mark
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