From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 16 03:20:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA00469 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 03:20:05 -0800 Received: from tomcat1.tbe.com (tomcat1.tbe.com [140.165.31.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA00462 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 03:20:03 -0800 Received: by tomcat1.tbe.com (920330.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG id AA16015; Sun, 15 Jan 95 19:06:52 -0600 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 95 19:06:52 -0600 From: dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (David Kelly) Message-Id: <9501160106.AA16015@tomcat1.tbe.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Controlling the Boot Manager Reply-To: dkelly@nebula.tbe.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? -- David Kelly, N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Did you know that if you took all the economists in the world and lined them up end to end, they'd still point in the wrong direction?