From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 22:10:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from volatile.by-tor.tacorp.net (ci391991-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com [24.9.31.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D63037B901 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:10:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from by-tor@volatile.by-tor.tacorp.net) Received: (from by-tor@localhost) by volatile.by-tor.tacorp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA00649; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:12:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from by-tor) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:12:21 -0500 (EST) From: Wes Morgan X-Sender: by-tor@volatile.by-tor.tacorp.net To: Vladik Cc: Charles Anderson , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader In-Reply-To: <38E3DC98.3793ADDA@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Little tip for would-be grub users... I had to play with the compiler flags quite a bit to get a bootable image. I suggest taking the flags used to compile the FreeBSD boot loaders and using them. On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Vladik wrote: > Hi, for now I am doing this every time (but I also do not > reboot too often). > GRUB has a curses-like based menu thing where you > can specify what to boot and how. You have to > set the config file during the compilation. And then > compile, and then build the floppy with that or install > on to the MBR. And I have not done that yet. > > -- > Vladislav > > Charles Anderson wrote: > > > > Do you do this everytime or just to get things started? > > > > If it's everytime, man that's a pain, if it's just to get things > > started it's easier than what I did. (but now I get a list of what I > > want to boot from the NT bootloader, and I just hit the arrow down to > > FreeBSD and go.) > > > > -Charlie > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Vladik wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am not sure if this exactly on topic, > > > but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed > > > beyond cyl 1024 > > > > > > > > > I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub) > > > > > > Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and > > > do the following: > > > > > > root (hd0,3,a) # or whatever your FreeBSD root slice is > > > #after the command above, it mounted the partition > > > > > > kernel /kernel -remount > > > boot > > > > > > When kernel boots to the point where it needs to mount a root > > > partion it will ask you, > > > in there you type > > > ufs:/dev/ad0s4a > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > Vladislav > > > > -- > > Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com > > > > No quote, no nothin' > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ morganw@engr.sc.edu _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve _ |___/___/___/ Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message