From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 23:29:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01485 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:29:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA01462 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 27054 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Dec 1998 07:29:21 +0000 (GMT) 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? In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Dec 1998 22:34:38 -0600" References: <867lw8v82p.fsf@detlev.UUCP> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 08:29:21 +0100 Message-ID: <27052.912756561@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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