Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:34:05 -0700 From: "Paredes Sánchez Martín A." <MPAREDES@telmex.com> To: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.st> Cc: "BSD." <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: BTX changes Message-ID: <35BC9957B8699C42AB3A665E3C5656556CAD5D@tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com>
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I see that you are progressing with your problem, I want to clarify something to you, but I am not sure about if I am right because I am new to FreeBSD too. In your mail you are talking about 2 different programs BootEasy and BTX Loader. BootEasy is the one that give the multiboot facility or bootmanager (the F1 ??? an F5 ...), this is stored in the MBR of disk 0, because of this, the size of this program is restricted to 512 bytes. If you have the CD 1 of installation, look in \TOOLS\SRCS\BTEASY, there is a README file and the sources of this program, the BOOT.ASM is the program that goes to the MBR, this is done with the BOOTINST program. If you know assambler, you can modify the BOOT.ASM to boot FreeBSD when the F5 is pressed. The BTX is the program in the bootsector of the partition of FreeBSD. Because of this, it stay in the disk 1 (the second), it can only load FreeBSD. -HTH maps -----Original Message----- From: Dick Hoogendijk [SMTP:dick@nagual.st] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:17 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: BTX changes I can't find the solution anymore :-(( I've the bsd bootloader installed on both my disks F1 ??? F5 disk 1 =-=- F1 FreeBSD F5 disk 0 =-=-= What I want is that by pressing F5 (the first one) FreeBSD gets loaded and NOT the bootmanager! I lost the syntax though. I tried various options w/ boot0cfg and fdisk but non worked. The BTX loader stays on disk-1. How can I remove the bootloader on disk 1. My fbsd-4.8 sysinstall does not seem to have the option of reinstalling the bootloader anymore. But I'll do it on the console if someone tells me the syntax. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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