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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.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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