Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:05:00 -0500 From: Ray Kohler <rkohler1@cox.rr.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Philip Pereira <info@wintellect.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Loader? Message-ID: <020ff5601011612FE4@Mail4.mgfairfax.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200201212348.aa85001@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200201212348.aa85001@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Monday 21 January 2002 06:48 pm, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <0a3135548221512FE4@Mail4.mgfairfax.rr.com>, Ray Kohler writes: > >> Currently my system uses the standard MBR to point to the hard > >> disk for booting, but I want to go a step further.... > >> > >> (A) How can I install the 'FreeBSD Boot Loader' at this > >> late stage without damaging my current installation? > > > >Run "disklabel -B ad0" (substitute another disk for ad0 if > >appropriate.) You can do this now or after installing linux, it > >doesn't matter. > > The disklabel program is normally used to replace the boot code > within the FreeBSD slice, not the MBR (with "dangerously > dedicated" disks it does touch the MBR). The utility that you > want is "boot0cfg", which installs and configures the "F1 > FreeBSD" style MBR boot manager. Just run > > boot0cfg -Bv ad0 > > and this will replace the standard MBR code with the boot0 boot > manager. Type "man boot0cfg" for more information. My bad. I just hope the OP didn't go do it already. (Although I've run disklabel on non-dedicated disks before and had no problems from it. Huh.) -- Ray Kohler Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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