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>*** admin.sgml.orig	Sun Aug 15 18:36:22 1999
>--- admin.sgml	Mon Aug 16 20:45:01 1999
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>*** 193,198 ****
>--- 193,201 ----
> <sect1>
> <heading>How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?</heading>
> 
>+ The procedure is slightly different for 2.2.x and 3.x (with the
>+ 3-stage boot) systems.
>+ 
> The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your
> native root FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/NT
> partition. Assuming you name that file something like
>***************
>*** 210,218 ****
> C:\="DOS"
> </verb>
> 
>! This procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD, or whatever
>! have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions on the
>! <bf/same/ disk. In my case DOS &amp; NT are in the first fdisk
> partition and FreeBSD is in the second. I also installed FreeBSD
> to boot from its native partition, <bf/not/ the disk MBR.
> 
>--- 213,221 ----
> C:\="DOS"
> </verb>
> 
>! For 2.2.x systems this procedure assumes that DOS, NT, FreeBSD,
>! or whatever have been installed into their respective fdisk partitions
>! on the <bf/same/ disk. In my case DOS &amp; NT are in the first fdisk
> partition and FreeBSD is in the second. I also installed FreeBSD
> to boot from its native partition, <bf/not/ the disk MBR.
> 
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>*** 242,247 ****
>--- 245,259 ----
> If FreeBSD is booting from the MBR, restore it with the DOS
> ``<tt/fdisk/'' command after you reconfigure them to boot from their
> native partitions.
>+ 
>+ For 3.x systems the procedure is somewhat simpler.
>+ 
>+ If FreeBSD is installed on the <bf/same/ disk as the NT
>+ boot partition copy <tt>/boot/boot1</tt> to
>+ <tt>c:&bsol;bootsect.bsd</tt> or if FreeBSD is installed on
>+ a <bf/different/ disk copy <tt>/boot/boot0</tt> to
>+ <tt>c:&bsol;bootsect.bsd</tt>. Then edit the
>+ <tt>c:&bsol;boot.ini</tt> file as described above.
> 
> <sect1>
> <heading>

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