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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 95 19:06:52 -0600
From:      dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (David Kelly)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Controlling the Boot Manager
Message-ID:  <9501160106.AA16015@tomcat1.tbe.com>

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Recently I installed FreeBSD 2.0 on my 486. The 250M HD is partitioned
20M for DOS in partition 1, partition 2 was allocated by the FreeBSD
install fdisk for the rest of the disk. wd0e was the MSDOS partition,
while the example given in INSTALL showed "h".

At boot time, telling to boot manager to boot "dos" doesn't work.
Answering wd(0,e)/kernel or wd(0,e)/dos produces the message:
Error: C:-5 H:0 S:421210781

So short of using "fdisk -u" to change the active partition, how
can I selectively boot DOS or FreeBSD? It seems I've missed this
somewhere. How do I set the boot manager's default?

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David Kelly, N4HHE,   n4hhe@amsat.org,    dkelly@nebula.tbe.com 
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