From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 4 23:09:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14885 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 23:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-43-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14880 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 23:09:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id IAA10277; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:58:19 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199812050658.IAA10277@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <199812042345.PAA00709@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 4, 98 03:45:55 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:58:17 +0200 (SAT) Cc: joelh@gnu.org, rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA14881 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > Regarding nextboot, I can't get your question into any kind of > > > context, sorry. Is this just an entirely separate issue, or > > > does "still works" relate to using FBSDBOOT versus not using > > > FBSDBOOT in some way? > > > > This is a related but separate issue. > ... > Now, one way to write this program immediately suggests itself to me. > > Rewrite nextboot for Windows and put a GUI on it. Hence, my > > question. I don't know any other way to talk to the boot manager, > > although I'm open to suggestions. > > The problem is that it's not a related issue; nextboot doesn't have > anything to do with what you're discussing - it's an outdated way to > talk to the old bootstrap code in order to pass arguments to the 'boot:' > prompt. It doesn't have any effect on the active partition. You're going off half-cocked here, Mike. The issue we're discussing is completely one of passing arguments to the boot prompt and, as I'd *already* mentioned to Joel, his idea is probably the best way of getting this info out of Windows and into BSD. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message