Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:26:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Vladimir Kushnir <kushn@mail.kar.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? Message-ID: <199810292326.PAA00742@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 01:17:40 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810300114420.2904-100000@kushnir.kiev.ua>
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> > > 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? It *should*. > There were some problems, it seems, and it looks I can't test it from > floppy. That's correct. You can boot from floppy to rescue yourself if you install it though; just type 'wd(0,a)/boot/loader' from the boot: prompt off a floppy. The problematic features are still being studied; what we're looking at at the moment is a set of tests similar to those that the Windows 95 FDISK uses when it asks the "large disk support" question. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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