From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 15:47:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FA514FA2 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14233; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:47:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Guy Middleton Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more boot loader questions -- dual boot system In-Reply-To: <19990528010826.A1264@chaos.obstruction.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 May 1999, Guy Middleton wrote: > I have a system with DOS and FreeBSD each installed on their own disks, > and I'd like to be able to have it boot BSD without manual intervention, > but can't figure out how. I have the FreeBSD boot manager on both > disk 0 (DOS) and disk 1 (BSD), but there seems to be no way to tell the > boot manager on disk 0 to boot BSD from disk 1, without typing F5/F1 each > time the machine boots. Any ideas? Try a boot floppy with a /boot.config of wd(1,a) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message