Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:06:07 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: ulf@Alameda.net Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, ulf@Alameda.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible problem with new boot loader ? Message-ID: <199901172306.BAA29070@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <19990117134745.G28911@TelcoSucks.org> from Ulf Zimmermann at "Jan 17, 99 01:47:45 pm"
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Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 06:29:30PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > The old bootblocks have a build setting BOOT_HD_BIAS to work > > around this problem. The new bootblocks rely on /boot.config. > > You can have > > > > 2:da(0,a) > > > > in /boot.config (ie. without a kernel name) to override just > > the unit number. > More info. With "2:da(0,a)" in /boot.config, a boot looks like this: > > /boot.config: 2:da(0,a) > / > BTX loader 0.01 BTX version is 0.87 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS drive D: is disk2 > BIOS drive E: is disk3 > BIOS drive F: is disk4 Thanks. With the /boot.config setting, the bootblocks are evidently passing control to /boot/loader correctly; and it should also be possible to boot directly from boot2, if that's ever necessary. The issue of how to get /boot/loader to DTRT is something you'll have to take further with Mike (but I see that's going on already). -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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