From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 15:18:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11013 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kar.net (n180.cdialup.kar.net [195.178.130.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10948 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:18:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kushn@mail.kar.net) Received: from localhost (volodya@localhost) by mail.kar.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02911; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 01:17:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kushn@mail.kar.net) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 01:17:40 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir X-Sender: volodya@kushnir.kiev.ua To: Mike Smith cc: Vladimir Kushnir , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? In-Reply-To: <199810292304.PAA00523@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Sorry, this is probably stupid question, but all the same. How do I update > > these boot blocks in a dual-boot situation (wd0s1 - win95, wd0s2 - > > FreeBSD)? > > As above. is the FreeBSD slice. > > > And do I need/can/want to update boot manager to a new boot0 as > > well (I got a rather oldish BIOS here)? > > You can, but you don't need to. Whether you want to is up to you. > -- Thanks a lot. So I'm not stuck with the old bootblocks forever (happy smile). What I meant about bootmanager, does it work with the old bios? There were some problems, it seems, and it looks I can't test it from floppy. Thanks again, Vladimir ===========================|======================= Vladimir Kushnir | kushn@mail.kar.net, | Powered by FreeBSD kushnir@ap3.bitp.kiev.ua | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message