From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 14:09:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AED1065670 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:09:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@pcartwright.com) Received: from host.yoursoftdns9.com (host.yoursoftdns9.com [74.86.125.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EC98FC0C for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:09:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@pcartwright.com) Received: from [208.65.89.183] (port=43573 helo=paulandcilla) by host.yoursoftdns9.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L2njs-0007nT-DO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:09:04 -0600 From: Paul Cartwright Organization: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:01 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com> <20081119133506.GA87794@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081119133506.GA87794@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811190909.01908.ale@pcartwright.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.yoursoftdns9.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - pcartwright.com Subject: Re: newb questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:09:05 -0000 On Wed November 19 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I think boot0cfg is the tool you'll want to use for this. =A0I've never > been in this situation, so I don't have a command to give you. =A0You can > use boot0cfg -v (e.g. boot0cfg -v ad0) to get information about > the boot0 configuration. nice, except boot0cfg -v ad1 doesn't recognize ad1's current partitioning=20 scheme.. I'll have to go back into gparted to see what slice my other OS is= =20 booted from. At least this points me in the right direction, thanks! =2D-=20 Paul Cartwright=20