From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 5: 7:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECABB37B405 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:07:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g2DD9XG14835 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:09:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g2DD9XJ14831 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:09:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from bs82.bsag.ch (bs82 [192.168.1.82]) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g2DD7VP00358 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:07:31 +0100 Received: (from hpr@localhost) by bs82.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g2DD7VD02269 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:07:31 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:07:31 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition Message-ID: <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org> <20020313135814.A2165@bsag.ch> <15503.19792.322463.709200@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 13 at 07:00, Mike Meyer spoke: > Hanspeter Roth 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