From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 29 17:31:23 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA09750 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 17:31:23 -0800 Received: from beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA09744 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 17:31:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199412300131.RAA09744@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA10789; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 09:30:19 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: Re: Boot Manager Prob? To: sc67+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Andrew Covitz) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 94 9:30:18 EAT Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Seth Andrew Covitz" at Dec 29, 94 2:03 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I have FREE-BSD installed on a second hard drive, and can boot the > kernel if I manually type in "wd0(1,a)/kernel" at the "Boot:" prompt. > However, I would like for the kernel boot automatically. > > The problem is that I am running other operating systems, and use > IBM's Boot Manager to boot off of the C drive. I realize if I replace > IBM's Boot Manager with the one from FREE-BSD, it will most likely solve > my problem, but I am afraid that I will lose contact with my other > operating systems. > > Is there another way? Am I thinking the right thing? > Actually, replacing IBM's Boot Manager won't solve your problem : You still have to key in wd(1,a)/kernel manually. The problem lies not in the Boot Manager but in the FreeBSD boot loader. You have to modify it to make it load from wd(1,a). I am looking into this one and hope to get a workaround. OTOH, if you replace your Boot Manager with other equivalents, OS/2 ( if you have ) may not boot. I use OSBS from tools/dos-tools directory and put OS/2 Boot Manager in it as an boot item. I first select OS/2 Boot Manager then select OS/2. -- Yen-Wei Liu (ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw)