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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811252015180.6716-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199811251640.IAA00674@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > 
> > Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD
> > from DOS partition, using /boot/loader?
> 
> It's not generally possible to boot FreeBSD once DOS has started; 
> modern DOS versions corrupt the BIOS vectors in a fashion that makes it 
> impossible to obtain system information.

I said: "is it possible to start from _DOS_ _partition_". Not "from under
running DOS"... see the difference? 

Andrzej Bialecki

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