From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 18:40:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840E637B419 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:40:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38lc29m.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.9.54] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NPiO-00029q-00; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:40:46 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g072eQu02576; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:40:24 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "F. Even" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #961 Message-ID: <20020106184024.A2029@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <00e301c196f8$72dc98c0$6601a8c0@elitists.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00e301c196f8$72dc98c0$6601a8c0@elitists.org>; from freebsdlists@elitists.org on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:23:55PM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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 > | 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 -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message