Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:26:11 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1016457971.03f29d@mired.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended partition Message-ID: <15503.21363.148734.631682@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch> References: <20020313113309.A3437@bsag.ch> <15503.17117.87903.17181@guru.mired.org> <20020313135814.A2165@bsag.ch> <15503.19792.322463.709200@guru.mired.org> <20020313140731.B2165@bsag.ch>
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Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> types: > > > > 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) ? Not that I know of. But I always use the way described in the grub info document for each OS if I'm going to boot that OS. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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