From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 15:21:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11555 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from assurance.rstcorp.com ([206.29.49.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11550 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:21:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by assurance.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17095; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:21:41 -0500 Received: from sandbox.rstcorp.com(206.29.49.63) by assurance.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma017093; Thu, 29 Oct 98 18:21:10 -0500 Received: from jabberwock.rstcorp.com (jabberwock [206.29.49.98]) by sandbox.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18031; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:21:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vshah@localhost) by jabberwock.rstcorp.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id SAA00678; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:21:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:21:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199810292321.SAA00678@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> From: "Viren R. Shah" To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? In-Reply-To: <199810292303.PAA00506@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199810292247.RAA01269@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <199810292303.PAA00506@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R. Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith writes: >> way to find out whether the new boot stages were installed? What >> should I be seeing with the new boot blocks? Mike> Remove /boot.config. The new loader does its very best to Mike> look-and-feel just like the old one. That definitely changed something. The help screen is no longer shown. So hopefully that means that I'm using the new boot blocks. >> [Part of the reason I'm asking this is that I boot FreeBSD using the >> NT loader, and I'm not entirely certain whether I need to update the >> NT loader in order to get the new boot blocks running.] Mike> No idea. Does the NT loader keep a copy of the first sector of the Mike> partition, or does it just jump there? I checked. It copies it, so I recopied the first sector from the FreeBSD partition. One unexpected side effect of my setup is that when I type in "reboot" at the /boot/loader prompt, I get sent back to the NT loader menu. Thanks for the help. Viren -- Viren R. Shah {viren @ rstcorp . com} "Never hire a ferret to do a weasel's job" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message