Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 06:53:30 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, mystify@friley-184-92.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading a text file with BTX Message-ID: <199901290453.GAA07540@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <36B12B51.9B9167DE@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Jan 29, 99 12:30:25 pm"
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Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Mike Smith wrote:
> > boot0 is the module that gives you the F? prompt
>
> What F? prompt???
The boot manager menu, for example
F1 FreeBSD
F2 UNIX
F5 Drive 1
Default: F1
> > boot1 is invisible, it just loads boot2
> > boot2 spins the | to begin with, and if you hit a key while it's paused,
> > you get it's prompt 'boot:', it starts the loader.
>
> Thanks. I have a clearer idea of it now. In which part of the disk
> each one of these resides?
boot0 occupies the master boot record (sector 0 of the disk). Only
sliced disks (not "dangerously dedicated") have a proper mbr.
boot1 and boot2 occupy the boot blocks (the first 8K sectors of a ufs
partition) with the default being the 'a' partition.
--
Robert Nordier
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