From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 05:23:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA05274 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 05:23:56 -0800 Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA05269 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 05:23:53 -0800 Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA24814 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 08:23:09 -0500 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199511281323.IAA24814@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Boot manager To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 08:23:09 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1413 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > > 1. I boot my 2.0.5R system and OS/2 from the OS/2 Bootmanager. I installed > > > 210R to sd2 and told sysinstall not to touch the bootblock. > > > Afterwards the bootmanager was deactivated, and the system booted the > > > old 205R partition by default. Hmm. > > > > This seems to be a problem, but neither Poul-Henning and I can figure > > out why. I literally don't write to a disk that's not selected, > > yet people are telling me the boot blocks are getting touched for their > > first drive anyway. I can't figure it out. > > The OS/2 bootmangler lives in a partition all to itself; I would guess > you're changing the active partition to point to the FreeBSD partition > (or the user is in the installer) > The 2.05 install made the FreeBSD partition the active one here. A quick boot of a dos floppy restored the normal functionality. The OS/2 Bootmanager was not harmed. I've used the OS/2 bootmanager along with OS-BS (both release and beta) and found they both worked flawlessly with FreeBSD 2.0.5. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |