Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 08:29:21 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, rnordier@nordier.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <27052.912756561@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Dec 1998 22:34:38 -0600" References: <867lw8v82p.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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> > Because you may have the FreeBSD install on the DOS partition, ie. not > > having a partition of its own. So you can't guarantee that you can > > activate a different partition and boot from it. > > So is my pursuit of FBSDBOOT worthwhile, or should I abandon it in > favor of Robert's suggestion? To me, FBSDBOOT is worthwhile. I have a laptop I've been unable to boot with FreeBSD using a boot manager. Using FBSDBOOT works just fine. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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