From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 20:55:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19977 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-34-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19962 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:55:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id GAA07540; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 06:53:34 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901290453.GAA07540@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Reading a text file with BTX In-Reply-To: <36B12B51.9B9167DE@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Jan 29, 99 12:30:25 pm" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 06:53:30 +0200 (SAT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, mystify@friley-184-92.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message