Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 15:45:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199812042345.PAA00709@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 Dec 1998 11:00:05 CST." <863e6vvo4q.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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> > Regarding nextboot, I can't get your question into any kind of > > context, sorry. Is this just an entirely separate issue, or > > does "still works" relate to using FBSDBOOT versus not using > > FBSDBOOT in some way? > > This is a related but separate issue. ... > Now, one way to write this program immediately suggests itself to me. > Rewrite nextboot for Windows and put a GUI on it. Hence, my > question. I don't know any other way to talk to the boot manager, > although I'm open to suggestions. The problem is that it's not a related issue; nextboot doesn't have anything to do with what you're discussing - it's an outdated way to talk to the old bootstrap code in order to pass arguments to the 'boot:' prompt. It doesn't have any effect on the active partition. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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