Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:46:40 -0700 From: Tony Jones <tony@thing.sunquest.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot manager question Message-ID: <9509141746.AA17181@thing.sunquest.com>
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I've read the diskspace.faq and all other related docs, but have a question on how to configure the FreeBSD boot manager. When FreeBSD is marked active (0x80) in the MBR, and control is transferred to the FreeBSD boot sector, where is the configuration loaded from ? (i.e the list of bootable areas) Does the FreeBSD boot manager go back and re-read the MBR displaying the other bootable slices ? and when one is selected basically transfer control to the disc are specified in the MBR. I know Linux has a ascii configuration file, and thus I was expecting an equivalent for FreeBSD, but I guess not. Is the answer to the above documented anywhere ? ----- My other question: Currently, I am 100% scsi (2 discs, NCR controller). If I add a IDE disc, will the system always attempt to boot from this disc i.e I will have to install the FreeBSD boot manager on the IDE disc ? System is a ASUS P55TP4XE. thanks tony
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