From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 12:25:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1463237B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar2-4-61-195-225.vz.dsl.gtei.net ([4.61.195.225] helo=cumulus.local) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UCuf-0004rp-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:25:29 -0800 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:24:44 -0800 From: scott worley To: freebsd-questions Subject: FreeBSD boot loaders? Message-Id: <20020125122444.0b327c4d.folokai@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Just moved my main workstation from linux to FreeBSD 4.5RC2. I was comfortable using GRUB on linux but I haven't found good documention on configuring the FreeBSD boot loaders. From the docs freebsd installs something called booteasy which isn't configurable? There are hints of a highly configurable boot loader for freebsd in the docs plus I see files in /boot which have options in them. Where are examples on how it? Most of the docs I've found on the web are about using LILO or NT's boot loader. I can always install the port of grub but it doens't like netbsd which I'm going to load on the same machine. Current setup is: /dev/da0s1 freebsd 4.5 slice(whole disk) /dev/da1s1 linux swap /dev/da1s2 linux /boot (set bootable) /dev/da1s3 linux / /dev/da1s4 empty, future netbsd the partitions on da1 were created after freebsd was installed so booteasy gives me: F1 FreeBSD F5 disk1 disklabel /dev/da1 spits out all the scsi drive info and c: 17783240 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1106*) Do freebsd boot manager(s) require disklabels on all disks? thanks, scott folokai@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message