Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 20:28:24 -0400 From: Pierre Lamy <pierre@userid.org> To: freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Trying to understand the boot process Message-ID: <4C0302A8.2000702@userid.org>
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I've got a nice little Atom box with a CF and hard drive, and I can currently boot NanoBSD off the flash no problem. I would like to optionally select the HD as a bootable device, and it does show up in the boot: 1 FreeBSD 3 FreeBSD 5 Drive 1 Now, I have already set a slice and put /boot in ad4s1a, and FreeBSD is manually installed out of a chroot'ed install (tar'd on seperate system and extracted correctly to the appropriate local HD filesystem) but I can't figure out how to actually get it booted, it seems to be missing the MBR? I have already RTFM, and used bsdlabel -B ad4s1, and also tried fdisk -B. I simply get the "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media..." message. Does anyone have any suggestions? My second question is how to label the boot options so that 1 says NanoBSD, 3 doesn't show up at all, and 5 days FreeBSD. -Pierre
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