From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 7:11:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9D6150FC for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 07:11:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991123233905.53272@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:39:05 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathon McKitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot prompts Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <383B1BA1.D804596D@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <383B1BA1.D804596D@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from Jonathon McKitrick on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:56:34PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 17:56:34 -0500, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I have seen two different boot prompts. > One when the F1/F2 prompt is shown (DOS, > FreeBSD) and then another if i hit a > key while the countdown is going on. > What is the difference between these > two? The first is from the boot selector which enables you to boot from difference slices (Microsoft "partitions"). It can allow you to boot non-FreeBSD systems. The second one comes from the bootstrap on the FreeBSD slice. It allows you to choose the file you want to load, usually a kernel image. I think you're limited to the root directory. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message