Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 00:03:12 +0100 From: Stefan Bethke <Stefan.Bethke@Hanse.DE> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <l03102804b0f95ce9eb87@[193.174.9.163]> In-Reply-To: <199801312104.WAA13913@ocean.campus.luth.se> References: <4667.886265278@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 31, 98 08:47:58 am"
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At 22:03 Uhr +0100 31.01.1998, Mikael Karpberg wrote: >According to Jordan K. Hubbard: >> I believe the goal behind the current message was to eliminate all >> those novice users saying "how do I boot off the 1st drive on my 2nd >> controller?" >Well, they don't need to boot off the first drive on their second controller >when they are going to install. They don't have much choice but to continue >booting off of the install floppy, anyway. Certain other OSes have the tendency to replace the MBR or do other nasty things to your disk when you install them. Using the install floppy, you can boot from the drive or partition to restore booteasy or the boot loader, and at this point, a reminder of the options will be definitly useful, as you can't just enter 'man boot' :-) So booting from something different than the floppy is indeed useful, and any help will certainly appreciated, as the alternative would be to re-install. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <Stefan.Bethke@Hanse.DE> Hamburg, Germany
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