Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:34:46 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: jose@we.lc.ehu.es (José Mª Alcaide) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to install the new boot manager? Message-ID: <199812082134.XAA09381@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <366D88AB.57FB996F@we.lc.ehu.es> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_M=AA_Alcaide?= at "Dec 8, 98 09:14:35 pm"
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José Mª Alcaide wrote:
> I have just switched to 3.0 (great job, folks!). Now I would like
> to try the new boot manager, but I don't know how to install
> it in the boot sector. I tried to use "sysinstall", but when it
> asks for confirmation before installing the bootmgr, it says that
> it would install "BootEasy".
I think the -current version of sysinstall does in fact install
boot0 (the new boot manager) while claiming to install booteasy.
You can also use the simple utility at
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0inst-1.0.2.tar.gz
The new boot manager has recently been updated to work much more
like booteasy (F5 support, etc), and also provides the following
additional functionality:
o Supports more than two hard drives (if your BIOS does)
o Supports booting beyond cylinder 1023 (if your BIOS does,
though many don't support this properly)
o Recognizes a few more recent partitions types (including
extended partition type 0xf)
o Allows the following to be configured on installation:
o Timeout value to automatic boot
o Whether to use BIOS disk extensions
o Whether to avoid updating the master boot record
(but not yet supported by the installation utility)
--
Robert Nordier
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