Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:01:46 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Dimitar.Peikov@borg.de Subject: RE: boot0cfg Message-ID: <XFMail.20030306130146.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1046904695.66086.7.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On 05-Mar-2003 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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) sysinstall sets the flag for you during the install. I originally wrote a version of boot0 that was smart enough to use packet mode automatically when needed, but it got backed out. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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