Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 18:21:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@box.net.au> Cc: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970906182003.7820B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <340F3E90.41C67EA6@box.net.au>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Matthew Thyer wrote: > I do this... > > Because I have a plug and pray sound card in a non plug and pray > motherboard, I have to 'activate' the sound card from DOS with the > "Intel Configuration Manager" before booting FreeBSD or the sound > card will not be detected in the device probes. To do this I have > set things up to default to booting my previous version of md-dos > which has DWCFGMG.SYS in its config.sys (thus activating the card) > then the autoexec.bat will re-write the boot block and reboot the > machine thus booting into FreeBSD. > > I use the bootblock restore program from a utility called BOOTSAVE > in DOS to manipulate the boot blocks and in FreeBSD on shutdown I > use a script called "shutit" which is: Or you could just use the fbsdboot.exe from DOS, to boot right into FreeBSD without messing with boot managers. fbsdboot.exe is in /usr/mdec Tom
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