Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:35:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> To: Ian@tirnanog.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot managers. Message-ID: <20000811123533.562FC20DE@nil.science-factory.com> In-Reply-To: <fim6psof5u4aru25ijrr9ufiu6jh3g0odt@4ax.com> (message from Ian J Greely on Fri, 11 Aug 2000 02:46:34 %2B0100) References: <fim6psof5u4aru25ijrr9ufiu6jh3g0odt@4ax.com>
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> ie If in FreeBSD I'd like to be able to say - Boot Doze;shutdown -r
> now. Then go off and have a coffee rather than having to wait around
> at the beck and call of a machine...
If you can manage
<write number of dos partition to boot sector at location xyz,
where xyz holds number of default boot partition>
reboot
your problem is solved.
If you use GRUB you could modify the default line in menu.lst:
default 0
^---- number of partition entry to boot on default
Regards,
Marc
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