From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 6:54:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED64E37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 06:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bouba.alxhost.com (bouba.alxhost.com [66.96.220.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803DD43E75 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 06:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com) Received: from h40n2fls24o900.telia.com ([217.208.132.40] helo=lusidor2002.lusidor.com) by bouba.alxhost.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17vdzg-0006Yn-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:20:21 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020929152206.00bcc0e8@mail.lusidor.com> X-Sender: lusidor@mail.lusidor.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:22:43 +0200 To: Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim From: Jimmy Lantz Subject: Re: Booting from a CD-ROM Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1541219139.20020929182604@yahoo.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bouba.alxhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - lusidor.com 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 Check out liveCD livecd.sourceforge.net. / Hth At 18:26 2002-09-29 +0800, you wrote: >Hello all, > > I can't search the archives for a solution. I thought I give this list > a try. > > WinXP screwed me last night and I'm forced to reinstall it. I totally > forgot > that I already have a FreeBSD installation on it and realized only > after I > installed it that I would not be able to boot if off because WinXP MBR > had already > overridden it with its own. I don't have floppy on this system, only > CD-ROM. > > I notice there's an option "boot: " I assume, for selecting kernel > after booting > off from a FreeBSD CD. How do I make use of the option? Do I need to > include > the specific disk and slice. I have 3 disks da0, da1 and ad0 according > to BIOS > ordering. FreeBSD stays in da1 and the kernel resides at > /kernels/kernel-new. I > read from the handbook that boot2 stage spawns off loader or > boot3 stage > depending on the parameters. Also it explains up until unload and set > kernel, > if possible I want to use loader because I've done a few > customizations in > loader.conf which I don't know how to make it out without using a loader. > > Thanks in advance. > >-- >Thank you for your time, >Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free >http://sbc.yahoo.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message