From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 8 13:35:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13482 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:35:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-26-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13475 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id XAA09381; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:34:49 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199812082134.XAA09381@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: how to install the new boot manager? 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" To: jose@we.lc.ehu.es (José Mª Alcaide) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:34:46 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message