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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:58:14 +0100
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: booting from extended partition
Message-ID:  <20020313135814.A2165@bsag.ch>
In-Reply-To: <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1016453725.806f98@mired.org on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:15:25AM -0600
References:  <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org>

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  On Mar 13 at 06:15, Mike Meyer spoke:

> Grub doesn't make the last selected choice the default by default; you
> have to do it in the boot entry in the menu with the "savedefault"

Tank you. This is what i've been looking for!

> command. That will make the entry currently booting the default entry
> next time you boot. I.e., mine looks like:
> 
> title FreeBSD-stable
> savedefault
> root (hd0,1,a)
> makeactive
> kernel /boot/loader

Is `kernel /boot/loader' better with FreeBSD than `chainloader +1'?
(I sometimes map in another BSD on the forth partition.)

-Hanspeter

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