From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 14:31:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19900 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19890 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07667; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:31:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Westrate, Andrew J" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Boot easy question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Westrate, Andrew J wrote: > pressing either of these then boots FreeBSD, but it is aiming for > 0:wd(0,a)kernel rather than 0:wd(1,a)kernel (which I have to type each time > at the boot prompt or it will panic because it can't mount root). In order > to go back to Win 98 I have to reboot, and then go back into the BIOS setup > program, which isn't too convenient. > > So my two questions are: > > 1) Can I somehow fix the boot manager so that it knows Win 98 is wd0 and > BSD is wd1? I have tried installing the boot manager to the win 98 disk, > (using the bootinst.exe program with the boot.bin file provided on the CD), > but win 98 booted the same as before. Is there a way I can edit the > boot.bin file to customize it for my computer? You need a newer version of booteasy, or hack the booteasy source (in assembler) to recognize the FAT32 partition type. > 2) If I can't, how can I make FreeBSD boot 0:wd(1,a)kernel by default, so I > don't have to type it in each time? echo "0:wd(1,a)kernel" > /boot.config should do it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message