Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:40:24 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "F. Even" <freebsdlists@elitists.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #961 Message-ID: <20020106184024.A2029@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <00e301c196f8$72dc98c0$6601a8c0@elitists.org>; from freebsdlists@elitists.org on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:23:55PM -0600 References: <bulk.77920.20020104000424@hub.freebsd.org> <00e301c196f8$72dc98c0$6601a8c0@elitists.org>
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:23:55PM -0600, 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? ...and also...is there any
> documentation anywhere for this? 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.
man 8 boot
man 8 boot0cfg
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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