From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 14:51:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B4337B405; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A338443F75; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h25Mpdjs091525; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:21:40 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: cain.gsoft.com.au: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be [127.0.0.1] Subject: RE: boot0cfg From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: John Baldwin Cc: Dimitar.Peikov@borg.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1046904695.66086.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 06 Mar 2003 09:21:36 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 03:26, John Baldwin wrote: > > It is strange that only F1 works (start Windows XP), while F3 play some > > sound. Pressing F5 starts Windows XP, but it could be because Windows on > > my second disk. > > > > Yes I know that there are other boot managers like GRUB, but it is another > > beer. > > You need to turn on 'packet' mode by hand. > > # boot0cfg -o packet ad0 > > should do the trick. Do you think this should be the default? ie would it fix more things than it breaks? My feeling is yes... Or is sysinstall supposed to set the flags based on where you install stuff? (I had a quick look but couldn't see anything to indicate this was so) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message