Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:07:31 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition Message-ID: <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch> In-Reply-To: <15503.19792.322463.709200@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1016456400.8dd5bc@mired.org on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:00:00AM -0600 References: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org> <20020313135814.A2165@bsag.ch> <15503.19792.322463.709200@guru.mired.org>
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On Mar 13 at 07:00, Mike Meyer spoke: > Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> types: > > 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! > > You're welcome. Twice, as I wrote the code that implements that. Wow, Thanks. > > > 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.) > > Using /boot/loader skips the need for a boot block on the > partition. Other than that, I don't think there's any difference. Are there OSes that don't have some kind of boot block in their own partition (or maybe in the extended partition) ? -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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