From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 17 15:07:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16108 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:07:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-49-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16098 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id BAA29070; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:06:10 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901172306.BAA29070@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: possible problem with new boot loader ? In-Reply-To: <19990117134745.G28911@TelcoSucks.org> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jan 17, 99 01:47:45 pm" To: ulf@Alameda.net Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:06:07 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, ulf@Alameda.net, 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 Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:29:30PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > The old bootblocks have a build setting BOOT_HD_BIAS to work > > around this problem. The new bootblocks rely on /boot.config. > > You can have > > > > 2:da(0,a) > > > > in /boot.config (ie. without a kernel name) to override just > > the unit number. > More info. With "2:da(0,a)" in /boot.config, a boot looks like this: > > /boot.config: 2:da(0,a) > / > BTX loader 0.01 BTX version is 0.87 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS drive D: is disk2 > BIOS drive E: is disk3 > BIOS drive F: is disk4 Thanks. With the /boot.config setting, the bootblocks are evidently passing control to /boot/loader correctly; and it should also be possible to boot directly from boot2, if that's ever necessary. The issue of how to get /boot/loader to DTRT is something you'll have to take further with Mike (but I see that's going on already). -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message