Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: mike@hyperreal.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Solved: 3.2R boot menu problems Message-ID: <19990623163158.23928.qmail@hyperreal.org>
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FOLLOWUP: Last week I posted about trouble I was having with boot0 in
FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. The symptom was that upon powerup, the system would
give me a boot menu consisting of:
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
F3 Drive 0
However, F1 and F2 apparently actually tried to boot from the A: floppy
drive. F3 resulted in a second menu:
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
F3 Drive 1
And from here, F1 and F2 behaved as they should.
Robert Nordier, maintainer of the boot0 code, offered some assistance that
got my boot menu to a more reasonable state. Although still not perfect, I
now at least do not have to be at the console to hit a key after a reboot.
Robert said the problem has to do with how the BIOS reports drive numbers,
and how boot0 reacts to the numbers it gets. He said that "in 3.2R, the
command to sort this out would have been:
boot0cfg -v -d 0x80 -o setdrv wd0
which tells the boot manager that the BIOS doesn't pass in the drive
number as expected, and that it should use 0x80 (first hard drive). The
3.2R version of boot0 isn't broken, it just isn't as smart as it could be.
I suggest you try the -current version instead, which is also available
here:
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0-1.9.tar.gz
Ensure that the 512 byte boot0 file ends up in /boot and then use the
command
boot0cfg -v -B wd0
to put it in your MBR."
There were 3 of us from the freebsd-questions list who were having the
same problem, and the new boot0 code solved it for two of us. The fact
that the boot manager is still in development and that Robert is very
responsive to our problem reports is encouraging, and I would like to
publicly thank him for his help. Thanks!
- Mike
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