Date: 06 Mar 2003 09:21:36 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dimitar.Peikov@borg.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: boot0cfg Message-ID: <1046904695.66086.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030305115655.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20030305115655.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 03:26, John Baldwin wrote: > > It is strange that only F1 works (start Windows XP), while F3 play some > > sound. Pressing F5 starts Windows XP, but it could be because Windows on > > my second disk. > > > > Yes I know that there are other boot managers like GRUB, but it is another > > beer. > > You need to turn on 'packet' mode by hand. > > # boot0cfg -o packet ad0 > > should do the trick. Do you think this should be the default? ie would it fix more things than it breaks? My feeling is yes... Or is sysinstall supposed to set the flags based on where you install stuff? (I had a quick look but couldn't see anything to indicate this was so) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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