Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:40:45 -0500 From: "Charles Anderson" <caa@columbus.rr.com> To: Vladik <pvlad@bigfoot.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader Message-ID: <20000330104045.A1509@midgard.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <38E265D3.279D4F0A@bigfoot.com>; from pvlad@bigfoot.com on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500 References: <87n1njbrfj.fsf@nakaji.tutrp.tut.ac.jp> <20000328150723.A28294@midgard.dhs.org> <38E265D3.279D4F0A@bigfoot.com>
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Do you do this everytime or just to get things started? If it's everytime, man that's a pain, if it's just to get things started it's easier than what I did. (but now I get a list of what I want to boot from the NT bootloader, and I just hit the arrow down to FreeBSD and go.) -Charlie On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Vladik wrote: > Hello, > I am not sure if this exactly on topic, > but this is how I boot freeBSD partition that is installed > beyond cyl 1024 > > > I use GRUB boot loader that understands LBA (www.gnu.org/grub) > > Once GRUB boots from a floppy, go to GRUB's command prompt and > do the following: > > root (hd0,3,a) # or whatever your FreeBSD root slice is > #after the command above, it mounted the partition > > kernel /kernel -remount > boot > > When kernel boots to the point where it needs to mount a root > partion it will ask you, > in there you type > ufs:/dev/ad0s4a > > > ---- > Vladislav -- Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com No quote, no nothin' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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