Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:02:20 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "F. Even" <freebsdlists@elitists.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #961 Message-ID: <039ae5902230612FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <00e301c196f8$72dc98c0$6601a8c0@elitists.org> References: <bulk.77920.20020104000424@hub.freebsd.org> <00e301c196f8$72dc98c0$6601a8c0@elitists.org>
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On Sunday 06 January 2002 04:23 pm, F. Even wrote:
> | Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:54:22 -0500
> | From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
> | Subject: Re: Boot Manager
> |
> | But FreeBSD's boot manager doesn't usually cause such trouble--in fact,
> | that's the nice thing about it--the last partition booted is
> | automatically made active, which is almost always what you want. You can
> | use
>
> boot0cfg -s
>
> | to change that behavior, though, if you want.
>
> Might I ask how you discovered this?
Discussion of this list (or one of the others) about six months ago.
> ...and also...is there any
> documentation anywhere for this?
I'm with you. I don't know where the official doc lives. This would
definately constitute an "improvement opportunithy" for FreeBSD IMHO.
> I have found myself pulling my hair out
> before looking for some documentation about how the FreeBSD bootloader
> works, and if there are config options for it...and really have come up
> dry.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
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