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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:58:14 +0100
From: Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: booting from extended partition
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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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