From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 19:58: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay3.adelphia.net (smtprelay3.adelphia.net [64.8.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8940637C33D for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvlad@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com ([24.48.148.111]) by smtprelay3.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with ESMTP id FS9PNF00.2BY; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:57:15 -0500 Message-ID: <38E3DC98.3793ADDA@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:00:40 -0500 From: Vladik X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Anderson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader References: <87n1njbrfj.fsf@nakaji.tutrp.tut.ac.jp> <20000328150723.A28294@midgard.dhs.org> <38E265D3.279D4F0A@bigfoot.com> <20000330104045.A1509@midgard.dhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, for now I am doing this every time (but I also do not reboot too often). GRUB has a curses-like based menu thing where you can specify what to boot and how. You have to set the config file during the compilation. And then compile, and then build the floppy with that or install on to the MBR. And I have not done that yet. -- Vladislav Charles Anderson wrote: > > Do you do this everytime or just to get things started? > > If it's everytime, man that's a pain, if it's just to get things > started it's easier than what I did. (but now I get a list of what I > want to boot from the NT bootloader, and I just hit the arrow down to > FreeBSD and go.) > > -Charlie > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Vladik wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not sure if this exactly on topic, > > but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed > > beyond cyl 1024 > > > > > > I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub) > > > > Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and > > do the following: > > > > root (hd0,3,a) # or whatever your FreeBSD root slice is > > #after the command above, it mounted the partition > > > > kernel /kernel -remount > > boot > > > > When kernel boots to the point where it needs to mount a root > > partion it will ask you, > > in there you type > > ufs:/dev/ad0s4a > > > > > > ---- > > Vladislav > > -- > Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com > > No quote, no nothin' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message