From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 5:26:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C07037B416 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:26:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2559 invoked by uid 100); 13 Mar 2002 13:26:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15503.21363.148734.631682@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:26:11 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition In-Reply-To: <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch> References: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org> <20020313135814.A2165@bsag.ch> <15503.19792.322463.709200@guru.mired.org> <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hanspeter Roth types: > > > > title FreeBSD-stable > > > > savedefault > > > > root (hd0,1,a) > > > > makeactive > > > > kernel /boot/loader > > > Is `kernel /boot/loader' better with FreeBSD than `chainloader +1'? > > > (I sometimes map in another BSD on the forth partition.) > > Using /boot/loader skips the need for a boot block on the > > partition. Other than that, I don't think there's any difference. > Are there OSes that don't have some kind of boot block in their own > partition (or maybe in the extended partition) ? Not that I know of. But I always use the way described in the grub info document for each OS if I'm going to boot that OS. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message