Booting from DOS?

fbsd_user fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com
Mon May 9 05:24:33 PDT 2005



I had this same problem when I re-installed 5.3 replacing 4.10 in
the second partition on the master HD. When I reformatted HD so
FreeBSD was on first partition and ms/win was on second partition,
problem went a way and the default boot manager worked fine after
that. This problem seems to be caused by the new boot sequence code
in 5.x.  If above solution works for you please submit bug report on
it.

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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ron Hudson
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FreeBSD-Current said to ask you people.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: May 8, 2005 12:52:04 PM PDT
> To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Subject: Booting from DOS?
>
> I have just installed 5.3
>
> I have a 100mb dos partition, 70mb swap  and the rest of the 2gb
hard
> drive as one bsd slice
>
> The BSD slice is all one filesystem "/"
>
> When my system boots it gives:
>
> F1 . . . DOS
> F2 . . . FreeBSD
>
> Default F?
>
> When I press F1 I get DOS
>
> When I press F2 the boot prompt repeats.
>
> I have tried to BOOTINST again. The same thing remains.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Is there a way to boot BSD from DOS?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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