From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 12:40:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B00937B42C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn200-ras55.screaming.net [212.188.150.200]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA28131 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:43:19 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editing boot loader? Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:40:14 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: <=FytOYkhSkBWhlXS1uAu5582CBC6@4ax.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Jansen wrote: >=20 > My boot loader no longer allows my to boot FreeBSD. I > don't know how to fix this. > When I press 'F3' for FreeBSD it just beeps at me. > I've been able to verify that my FreeBSD partition is > alive and well. >=20 > I am looking for a little more informatino on the > FreeBSD boot process. I would very much like to be > able to add a line to my NT emergency boot floppy that > enables me to boot FreeBSD also but have so far been > unsuccessful. I've had good results using Ranish Partition Manager. A DOS program from http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part It has a tiny boot manager that resides in the MBR, or larger one if you need more verbose choices. I'd like a FreeBSD version really. It would be good if the DOS version could manage UFS too. The site is worth a visit for information on drive layouts and the boot process etc. Boot managers are not OS dependant (AFAIK). HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message