From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 6 10: 1:39 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 45AB537B408 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:01:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B738643FE1 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9056 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 18:01:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Mar 2003 18:01:37 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h26HwfhT052162; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:58:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1046904695.66086.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:01:46 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: RE: boot0cfg Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Dimitar.Peikov@borg.de 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 05-Mar-2003 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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) sysinstall sets the flag for you during the install. I originally wrote a version of boot0 that was smart enough to use packet mode automatically when needed, but it got backed out. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message