Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:30:26 -0400 (EDT) From: john hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> To: George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD Message-ID: <199708071530.LAA09568@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> In-Reply-To: <27541.870906097@connect.com.au> References: <199708061320.WAA08867@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <27541.870906097@connect.com.au>
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George Michaelson writes: > Four things: > > 1) at next boot, which of the menu of boot choices is to be the > default ie under reboot, do you boot back into THIS unix or into > W95, DOS, NetBSD, Linux etc > > 2) change the flag marking if the MBR is to be updated to reflect > the current boot choice as the live preference. This is different > to the above which states WHICH secondary boot is to be used, this > marks if any alternate boot is actually taken because of keyboard > selection, that the selection becomes the active default boot > > 3) change the textual stringprompts against each option > > 4) change which bootable partitions appear in the menu of choices if you just want to change the active boot partition, all this is a lot of work. 'fdisk -a' does the simple thing, and twiddles the appropriate two bits in the boot sector for you. both the standard IBM bootsector and the optional bootmanager sector offered by FreeBSD (whose name i forget) do the right thing with this. --jh -- John Hood cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us Predictably, they all eventually wandered away, rubbing their bruises and brushing mud out of their hair. Some went off to work for the ESA, launching much smaller rockets into low orbits, while others elected to sit on their front porches drinking Jim Beam from the bottle and launching bottle rockets from the empties. [Jordan Hubbard]
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