lost with booting

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai]

-On [20040907 23:52], Matthew Dillon (dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>    I can't make heads or tails of it.  All I can think of is that maybe
>    you are running a mix of different types of boot code?  The 5.x
>    boot1/boot2/loader code is not compatible with the DFly boot1/boot2/loader
>    code because our partition table is larger.  'boot0' (the master boot
>    record) should always be compatible.

For the record, using the same pre-existing partition (which was originally
partitioned from within Windows XP and not formatted or assigned a drive
letter) I can also install FreeBSD 4.10 and boot to it.  The loader is the
0.8 version which is really FreeBSD's 4.10.

So both 4.10 and 5.2 boot completely to a partition created in Windows XP.
I will redo the partition using fdisk from the DF snapshot to see if it is
being very picky about that.

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